So they can do as much or as little as they feel is right.
Nobody in this row is really considering the patient in all of this.
This will be a good example for all those who wish to see the current Health and Social Care Bill become law.
There is now a real head of steam building up, and Lansley will need to be sacked and the Bill withdrawn. Then the Government needs to start building bridges with the Professionals that they have so cavalierly ignored and denigrated.
I have a Tory MP in a marginal constituency. This MP (a real cheerleader for the reforms) will have one GP telling patients exactly who to blame, and I'm sure I can influence several hundred in the next 3 years. That MP will be out of a job come the next election. Especially as my view chimes in with 90% of other GPs.
Now is the time for the Prime Minister to show some political nous. The Bill, and Andrew Lansley MP need to be got rid of. Of the two, it is the Bill that is the problem. Andrew Lansley can stay, if his Bill goes.
What will David Cameron do?
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I am broadly in agreement with your concerns regarding the current health bill. In my view, it is not that part, or even whole, privatisation is wrong but that I don't trust any of today's politicians to get it right, particularly ensuring no "cherry picking".
However, not all private medical groups lack ethics. The Ramsay health group say all their own patients who have been fitted with Pip implants will be offered free scans and consultations and any who are still concerned can have replacements fitted FoC (http://preview.tinyurl.com/6wj9zh7).
I only know this because I am a NHS patient who is going to have a routine op in one of their hospitals, so did some reading.
I assume that the implied answer to your last question is that Cameron should resign. You won't be satisfied with anything else, will you JD?
We are a democracy, and this is not in any way democratic. There is no mandate, and it is being pushed through on a tissue of lies, threats, bribes and bullying. We want honest and accountable Government, not this abomination.
New Labour is no better.
Honest people in the UK are disenfranchised.
one GP telling patients exactly who to blame
Personally? in the surgery? during appointments? whether or not they raise the matter? I think this inappropriate. The most any of my GPs have ever done is display leaflets etc., in the practice but outside and away from consulting rooms, opposing GP fundholding (yes,all those years ago).
I agree with you on the bill and agree there was no mandate for its provisions.
JD, I agree. His "no top down reorganisation" has gone the same way as his "cast iron guarantee". In my view the man is a disaster.
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