Although the new radical health strategies suggested by the National Health Services (NHS) directly aim on giving the General Practitioners more independence from the bureaucratic government and more authority over the U. K. health care system at large, GPs are finding it difficult to conform with the new roles thrown at them.

GPs were annoyed at the new decisions as they believe they are not “skilled” enough to operate such tasks. They also expressed their resentment to the fact that the NHS did not discuss the matter with them before legalizing it. Furthermore, GPs are concerned that these responsibilities would weigh the system down and, most likely, would compromise the doctor-patient relationship.

GPs questioned the idea that these so-called reformations would save money, saying, “It is destined to fail because there will always be pressure on budgets - patients' expectations and medical advances will always outstrip the ability of the NHS to afford that level of care”.

However, NHS apparently did not pay any attention to the GPs’ calls, thus announcing that GPs have to speed up in joining consortiums before the fall of 2012, to start working on the change and making arrangements regarding the budgets, which will be allocated by 2013. The Government reported that GPs need to connect to a new partnership before the fund starts.