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Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
The NHS is steadily being driven blindfolded to a US-style insurance-based scheme, divorced from high quality treatment.
This article, jointly written by JS Bamrah and Kailash Chand OBE, is part of our State of the NHS series.
As a GP and ex-Chair of a primary care trust and as a practising consultant psychiatrist, we collectively have a lifetime of experience with the NHS. We have been through numerous meaningless structural changes, but never before have we witnessed such an assault on the values of the founding principles of the NHS as in last two years.
Lansley's reforms, which were universally opposed, were sold as championing three issues: patients at the centre of the NHS, changing the emphasis from targets to clinical outcomes, and empowering health professionals (in particular GPs).
In practice, this turned out to be an illusory empowerment for GPs and patients, as we had warned at the time. If Lansley was a doctor he would have been referred to the General Medical Council for affecting patient care on such a mass scale, and if the politicians live up to owning the truth then he should be hauled in front of parliament to face some form of disciplinary action.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...n-for-his-impact-on-patient-care-9801764.html
This article, jointly written by JS Bamrah and Kailash Chand OBE, is part of our State of the NHS series.
As a GP and ex-Chair of a primary care trust and as a practising consultant psychiatrist, we collectively have a lifetime of experience with the NHS. We have been through numerous meaningless structural changes, but never before have we witnessed such an assault on the values of the founding principles of the NHS as in last two years.
Lansley's reforms, which were universally opposed, were sold as championing three issues: patients at the centre of the NHS, changing the emphasis from targets to clinical outcomes, and empowering health professionals (in particular GPs).
In practice, this turned out to be an illusory empowerment for GPs and patients, as we had warned at the time. If Lansley was a doctor he would have been referred to the General Medical Council for affecting patient care on such a mass scale, and if the politicians live up to owning the truth then he should be hauled in front of parliament to face some form of disciplinary action.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...n-for-his-impact-on-patient-care-9801764.html