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Junior doctor strikes and the surge in doctors planning to quit the NHS reflect the government's 'profound, demoralising failure' to run the NHS properly, Dr Mark Porter told an emergency BMA conference on Tuesday.
Speaking at a special representative meeting in London - the first held by the BMA for over five years - the BMA chairman was scathing in his criticism of the government's handling of the health service and its treatment of doctors.
He said the emergency meeting was called to ‘define the crisis we face, address our corrosive pressures and to try to find and define new solutions’.
Dr Porter accused the government of allowing ‘piecemeal privatisation of services to destabilise the NHS’. He said the current crisis, the industrial action launched by junior doctors and the ‘massive wave of doctors’ wanting to leave the profession are all symptoms of the ‘profound, demoralising failure in the government’s running of the health service’.
http://www.gponline.com/junior-doct...government-nhs-says-bma-chair/article/1393410
Speaking at a special representative meeting in London - the first held by the BMA for over five years - the BMA chairman was scathing in his criticism of the government's handling of the health service and its treatment of doctors.
He said the emergency meeting was called to ‘define the crisis we face, address our corrosive pressures and to try to find and define new solutions’.
Dr Porter accused the government of allowing ‘piecemeal privatisation of services to destabilise the NHS’. He said the current crisis, the industrial action launched by junior doctors and the ‘massive wave of doctors’ wanting to leave the profession are all symptoms of the ‘profound, demoralising failure in the government’s running of the health service’.
http://www.gponline.com/junior-doct...government-nhs-says-bma-chair/article/1393410