Under the complex reforms, more than 200 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be replaced by just 42 much larger integrated care systems.
The government has not yet given details of how funding will be allocated to these new commissioning units but Labour analysis suggests that if existing budgets are spread evenly across the new regions, deprived areas could suffer significant cuts.
Blackpool could lose out by £287 a patient by being integrated into the much wider Lancashire and South Cumbria region, for example; Knowsley by £253 a patient as it joins Cheshire and Merseyside; and Salford by £116 a patient as it is swallowed up into the Greater Manchester health and care partnership.
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