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The headline includes suggesting the NHS is in "peril" if we do not proceed with the new Bill.
This is, of course, the exact reverse of the truth, and the NHS alliance represent nobody but themselves. I am sure they have been prodded into doing this by the Department of Health. Their lead GP is Dr Michael Dixon OBE. He has been at the barking-mad end of General Practice for along time, supports and promotes the nonsense of 'Integrated Health', has an OBE and wears a bow tie. He does not represent anything except himself and his rather ridiculous organisation. The RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) represents rather more, and in a recent poll 90% of GPs were against the Bill.
The BBC have been duped into giving this fringe organisation more credibility than they deserve. The peril will be listening to them.
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Not half as perilous as having these clowns doing your commissioning. The letter is here, and if you check the signatories, you will see some double-counting. This bunch of goons can't even manage a list of 50 or so signatories! Yet they want to run the NHS!
"Their lead GP is Dr Michael Dixon OBE."
Says it all, really.
He was the medical director of The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, which closed in 2010 after its finance director was arrested for stealing £253,000 from the organisation.
The charity's finance director, accountant George Gray, was convicted of theft and sentenced to three years in prison. But not Dixon.
Shouldn't the GMC suspend him.
I suppose the implication of what happened at the Prince's FIH was that the accountant managed to embezzle a quarter of a million quid without Dixon (or anyone else) noticing anything was amiss. Which, given that Dixon was one of the Foundation's Directors (and presumably on their Executive Ctte), would not give me great confidence in his ability to run the proverbial junket in the brewery.
The word I always feel is most appropriate for Dixon, and other people of his ilk who rather clearly evince "Knight Starvation', is Vladimir Illyich (Lenin's) old formulation of "Useful Idiot".
The link at the top of your blog post doesn't work. Here it is: http://www.nhsalliance.org/
I've done a new link....
Call the man for what he is but for the love of the The Doctor say nary a besmirching word against bow ties.
Bow ties are cool.
Mrs Dr Aust tells me that in the old days bow ties were the accepted hospital way of telling the consultants apart from the old-style pre-MTAS almost-consultant senior registrars. Shirts and ties were of course universal (out of theatre or A&E), but by hallowed convention only consultants wore bow ties.
Not sure what that says about a bow tie-wearing GP like Dr Dixon.
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