NHS shakeup may destroy patients' trust in GPs, says BMA leader

[Northerner]

The coalition's NHS shakeup could destroy the trust between GPs and their patients by making family doctors responsible for the rationing of treatment, the leader of the medical profession has warned.

GPs would be at risk of being seen as "agents of the state" who are implementing government cuts once the historic change in their role takes effect on 1 April, Dr Mark Porter told the Guardian.

Porter, chairman of the ruling council at the British Medical Association (BMA), said doctors were worried that their role in deciding which patients got access to which treatments, as a result of the formation of 211 GP-led clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) across England, would prove divisive and unpopular.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/01/nhs-reforms-gps-patients-bma

 

[Lauras87]

Hmmmmm this is worrying.

I hope it works or otherwise we are all f***ed

 

[Andy HB]

Oh come on! GPs are already rationing treatment! Just look at the test strip issue.

 

[Lauras87]

Oh come on! GPs are already rationing treatment! Just look at the test strip issue.

This I know all too well.
I had to get my diabetes consultant involved so I could be sent for tests due to vomiting in my sleep.