To save many many pounds of tax payers money.
As someone who works in the NHS I strongly believe that NHS Direct should be abolished. I'm convinced it's just another level of bureaucracy that costs the country billions of pounds a year.
Also, the NHS National IT Programme should be stopped in it's tracks. A system extremely unuser friendly. Already years behind schedule, billions of pounds over budget. A complete & utter waste of time & resources. A crackpot idea from the beginning. Any hospital, such as my own, which is already lumbered with this load of junk, should be able to get rid of it & return to the perfectly adequate systems that were already in place.