Exciting crowd sourcing fact checking opportunity.

Journalism As Suw suggests, this New York Times story about David Cameron and British politics in general reads like it's discussing an alternative reality version of Britain. One inaccuracy, about the number of unemployed there are in the country has already been corrected but there are some strange turns of phrases as:
"The National Health Service, while protected from cuts, has been ordered to shed thousands of jobs. The coalition’s plan is to hand real power — and 70 percent of the health budget — to general practitioners, who, in the coalition plan, would decide for the first time in the health service’s 60-year history what kind of treatment patients would get, and where they would get it."
Which only seems about half true. The NHS has been order to do anything of the sort, not directly.  Can anyone else spot anything which doesn't look right? 

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