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Health campaigner Cllr John Blackie illustrating his frustration in 2013 HEALTH campaigners in England’s largest county have welcomed proposals to overhaul the NHS, saying they give hope for much improved and more localised services. North Yorkshire County Council chairman Councillor Jim Clark said competition-focused reforms of the NHS in 2013 had plunged the area into a “bureaucratic nightmare”. The former health service accountant said moves outlined in a white paper unveiled this week to tackle bureaucracy and encourage health services from hospitals to GP surgeries and social care to work more closely could only benefit the county. Cllr Clark is among a number of campaigners, including GPs, who have heralded the Government’s intended change in focus to “the health of the population, not just the health of patients”.