Doctors or accountants? Your say
0 Comments | Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), July 23, 2010
ANDREW Landsley’s plan to give pounds 80bn directly to GPs and phasing out the PCT system will not improve the NHS.
To manage such a large amount of money will only turn doctors into accountants, taking the priority away from the patient.
In time the NHS will go the same way as the utilities did (gas, water, electricity) and end up being foreign-owned as services will have to be put out to tender in order to save money, which is the sole purpose of the reform.
It has nothing to do with better health care for patients and all about the Tory ideal of a smaller public sector.
Then there’s the question of NICE (national institute of clinical excellence), a quango that costs pounds 30m per year which was set up to ration life-saving drugs, mainly to cancer patients.
If Landsley was serious about setting up a special fund to allow all patients the drugs they need (written into manifesto but not mentioned since) where will NICE fit in? There are still many questions the public deserve answers to – and soon.
KEITH HINDMARCH, Stockton
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