In October 2014 after the publication of NHS England's ‘Five year forward view’ Bennett defended Choice and competition as "one of the ways in which we can drive change and improvement for patients, and we don’t see that that will cease to be the case” - though competition was not mentioned by NHS England. He also said that Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority and NHS England planned to develop “a whole system, geographically based intervention regime” which could, include a ‘special measures’ approach to areas facing serious problems with care.