Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was told to prepare for a community revolt after more evidence emerged yesterday that his disastrous "reforms" are forcing dramatic cuts onto England's NHS.

Watchdog Monitor dealt a further blow to the government's chaotic market experiment when it revealed that nearly one in four "walk-in" centres - designed to take pressure off hospitals - have shut in the past three years.

Reasons given by commissioning bodies, which "buy in" GP, hospital and other medical services, included complaints that they had been "too popular."