SCOTLAND'S top civil servant last night sparked a cross-Border row after a video emerged of him deriding the Coalition's NHS reforms and calling their core idea "enormously risky".
Permanent Secretary Sir Peter Housden told Scottish NHS managers that Conservative Health Secretary Andrew Lansley "could not persuade anyone" that having GPs commission patient care in England instead of health trusts was what was needed to improve the health service.
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