Against:
90-95% of GPs
19 out of 20 Royal Medical Colleges
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Midwives
Vast Majority of Working Doctors in NHS
Unite
Unison
Most Ancillary Workers
Most of the population (if they knew)
Health Service Managers
Academics
Medical, Management and Nursing Journals
Labour Party
For:
<5% of GPs
Department of Health
The "Future Forum"
Conservative MPs
Liberal Democrat MPs
Private Healthcare industry
NHS Alliance
Sitting on fence:
Royal College of Surgeons.
So, the BBC refer to the future forum as "Independent" (they are not) and interview a GP from the NHS Alliance (who is a strong supporter of wibble - and the Bill).
Who should the average person believe? The "Fors' or the 'Againsts'?
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The conservative and liberal MPs who are running the country were democratically elected, and will answer to the electorate at the next election.
To whom to the Royal Colleges answer?
Their own self interests and, above all, their wallets.
"Who should the average person believe? The "Fors' or the 'Againsts'?
... or the 'Experts' currently looking at the bill? Do you trust those JD?
... and you make it sound like a contest!
Listened to a 'debate' on the Health Bill on the BBC R4 'Today' programme this morning, of the four featured talking heads only Dame Shirley Williams was fundamentally opposed to it, whereas Chris Ham of the King's Fund (supported by major private health providers) did his usual 'curate's egg' act and Steve Field, Chair of the Quisling, sorry, Future Forum, did his usual prostrate poodle impression. What really got me was that Nick Seddon, deputy director of 'Reform' was given a pre-recorded slot in which he, again, performed to form in a dreadfully biased analysis piece, but was not available to be cross-examined live by either Dame Shirl or the rather dippy female presenter, Sarah Montague. Were any eloquent anti-Bill clinicians such as our Chris Peedell invited to contribute? My arse they were! So much for the BBC's much vaunted 'balance' principle. I'm frankly disgusted by this but no longer exactly surprised.
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