East Worthing and Shoreham Labour Party

Mendacious and misleading - sounds familiar

It’s hard to know why doctors’ ‘leaders’ (BMA) are lying and scaremongering to torpedo the new Health Centres that are being funded for every Primary Care Trust. In their Alice in Wonderland world, extra capacity means that “some patients will have further to travel to see a doctor, that they will lose the personalised care they get at the moment, and that the crucial role the GP’s surgery plays in the local community will be lost.” (Dr Kailash Chand of the BMA) In Dr Chands mendacious and misleading letter to the Guardian, plump with ifs and probablies, he earns the further epithet ‘disgraceful’ for his Goebels-worthy ‘Polyclinics, otherwise called health centres’ (they are not) extrapolated to polyclinics being forced on us throughout the nation with dire, civilization ending job losses and damage. This is pumping up hyperbole to dangerous pressures. As for hyperventilating about the new Health Centres being run by ‘commercial companies that are accountable primarily to their shareholders rather than patients’, a good many GPs are already self-employed (ie a commercial business) ..... “The profit of GPs varies according to the services they provide for their patients and the way they choose to provide these services. Most GPs would expect to earn between £80,000 and £120,000” (NHS Careers).