tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post3089861793177298344..comments2024-02-01T09:25:16.606+00:00Comments on Bubb's Blog: The BMA!Sir Stephen Bubbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575202213305419556noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-70956603116695352002011-09-03T13:03:42.398+01:002011-09-03T13:03:42.398+01:00Don't like this man's ability to be calm a...Don't like this man's ability to be calm and objective. Also doesn't seem to know that all consultants, junior doctors and many GPs are salaried, not part of the private sector. Even Independent Contractor GPs have direct pension links and many a national contract with the government.<br /><br />Doctors support the NHS as a system that brings the most good to the most people. Privatisation ie letting the private sector provide more and more services in the name of 'choice' or competition and 'take over' commissioning, will result in some good to fewer people. That was Hamish Meldrum's point<br /><br />Ron Singer, President Medical Practitioners' Union-Unite (not a BMA memberDr Ron SIngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08488531744315725047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-85809283598059265302011-09-02T14:06:26.655+01:002011-09-02T14:06:26.655+01:00With major concerns over a bad bill that will send...With major concerns over a bad bill that will send the NHS towards being an insurance service AKA US style healthcare, a "listening" exercise (but no "doing" of any substance) and a total lack of any robust evidence for widespread change of a system that was largely working after years of under investment by all sides, make no mistake, this is about private companies making money out of healthcare in this country, the governments advisors stated so in the US less than a year ago.<br /><br />This bill is a canerous growth for patients, the mess it makes will simply get worse until it kills, unless effective & rapid treatment is taken. Yes, for your healths sake, kill the billlove the NHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249987995831599599noreply@blogger.com