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Mendacious and misleading - sounds familiar

Posted on Jun 14 2008

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).

The PCT repays our trust, the Consultants play a blinder, the People win

Posted on May 31 2008

VICTORY! Huge thanks is due to everyone who has contributed to this historic moment. The people have won the argument.
The Primary Care Trust conducted the review without flinching, with good grace while under sometimes intense political pressure, buffeted by conflicting demands, listening to the evidence, adapting its plans accordingly, and finally came to the conclusion whose logic had become inescapable.
The WASH Consultants Group worked tirelessly to research and present the evidence upon which this decision is ultimately based. Their achievement is all the more remarkable in that they are not professional politicians or administrators but incredibly busy doctors responsible for life and death decisions. That they found the energy, commitment and organisation to research and lobby at the same time as being senior consultants in a major hospital is hugely impressive. We owe them. 

EWAS raises loads for Worthing Hospital’s Cancer Fund

Posted on Jan 03 2008

Boxing Day, and Emily’s first winter bathing experience was stymied by the flu. But re-inforcements were rushed to the front - Splash Point - to support Worthing Hospital’s Cancer Fund.

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