Firms may form consortia to bid for each duty contract.
Instead, GP practices will be obliged to form consortia to commission care themselves.
Neutering Nice and leaving individual consortia to decide what treatments they fancy footing is hardly going to help.
Under the proposals, general practitioners would band together in regional consortia to buy services from hospitals and other providers.
It aims to build on its nuclear expertise by joining future consortia to replace ageing nuclear-power plants.
It is likely that Labour's plan to introduce independently funded news consortia, to replace ITV's regional TV service, will also be scrapped.
Richards advocated the adoption of Ofcom's proposal for independently funded consortia to bid to replace ITV's local news programming in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions.
The proposal would see Ofcom auction up to 81 local TV licences, through a single "spectrum band manager", to allow independent media consortia to produce local media coverage.
He cited the decision to scrap a Labour proposal for regional news consortia to be funded by a protected element of the licence fee.
And although it had expected at least six consortia to bid, the winning offer of the minimum eligible amount was the only one made.
By December ACP had qualified four global consortia to bid on the main component of the program the construction of the third pair of locks.
