In line with the National Children and Adult Services conference Andrew Lansley announces that the decisive power over the National Health System (NHS) should be divided among the federal and local governments.

The democratization of the health system in the UK has been discussed within the last three to four years, and will now be implemented in line with the government's decision of disempowering the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence who has previously been in charge of medication regulation.

The Federal Government's MP Lansley now asks the first motivated local health authorities to establish boards and actively contribute to health decisions in their local areas.

According to Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson, this will reform the British health system in favour of decentralized decision making by many local voices who all sit around the NHS table. "Health and wellbeing boards are the table. This has massive implications for the NHS in a way that very few people yet really understand".

The planned budget for those new established health boards will amount to approximately £3.8bn of NHS funds for the next four years. This money should aim to guarantee not only health care but at the same time social care in all local communities. Critics complain that the merging of those two sectors under the same budget will necessarily lead to less spending for health care and not bring the needed health care improvements in the UK.