Friday, 17 February 2012

Panic, panic......



The Prime Minster is arranging a summit to discuss the current Health and Social Care Bill. That is great news. I wonder who he will invite?

Maybe the organisation that represents the key professionals who are expected to deliver his ideas for commissioning would be good to have there. Yes, some GPs would be good to have invited. Then we could have a discussion about why we need primary legislation.

Will he invite a democratically elected representative of the Royal College of General Practitioners?

Will he invite the leaders of the doctors' professional organisation, the British Medical Association?

Will he invite the leaders of the country's nurses, the Royal College of Nursing?

Will he invite the leaders of the Royal College of Radiologists?

Will he invite the leaders of the country's midwives, the Royal College of Midwives?

Will he invite the leaders of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health?

Will he invite the leaders of the Chartered Institute of Physiotherapy?

How about Unite and Unison?

He won't invite any of them, because they disagree with the Government. All who will come will be the craven, the right-wing, the believers, those on the make. Individual GPs will be invited, maybe Dr Michael Dixon or Dr Charles Alessi. Members of the Future Forum will be there in force. Possibly the leaders of the Royal College of Surgeons.

I look forward to hearing who will be invited.

I won't be, for sure!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Camereron begins to look more and more like the foreign dictators he denigrates as each week passes.

Down with the Bill and out with Cameron.

Doctor Zorro said...

Looks as if you are right. The RCGP and the BMA are not invited for a start

Anonymous said...

I think you have mistaken the purpose of the summit. It's not a summit to hear points of view. It's a sort of war cabinet to discuss how to defeat their opponents

the a&e charge nurse said...

Your worst fears are being realised, JD - the race to the bottom seems to have accelerated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/19/david-cameron-nhs-summit-criticism