Offensive?

Mr Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health, is not having a good time. His supporters are now largely in the rank of the Conservative party, and he has signally failed to make the case for his new Health and Social Care Bill, which the media still say will put 'GPs in charge of using NHS money, to organise services.

I'm a GP and I should be pleased to be in charge of trying to get the best service for my patients, and I am convinced that it will do no such thing.

Three reasons:

1. Impossible to meet increasing demand with decreasing budget
2. 5 New extra layers of bureaucracy
3. 60% of the Budget is decided before GPs even get to sit down at the table.

Mr Lansley has resorted to playground bully tactics of calling people names. He has been pretty offensive about the nurses, and how he is piling more of his bile onto the BMA. He doesn't like the BMA because it disagrees with him and his shrinking cabal of zealots, chancers and doctors on the make.

If it is a good Bill, persuade me as to its virtues, Mr Lansley - don't call me names.