Miliband faced Prime Minister David Cameron during Prime Minister's Questions, warning that the greater part of the personnel of the Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), who are being dismissed, would be reemployed by PCT successors, the GP commissioning consortiums.

Miliband said after changing the original proposals for the shake-up of the NHS, the number of the service's statutory organizations will rise from 163 to 521, effectively contradicting the government's former claims that the NHS reforms are aimed at cutting bureaucracy.'

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