Our rose-tinted view of the health unions isn’t good for us or the NHS The BMA and Royal College of Nursing exist for their members, not NHS patients or the public. Don’t assume everything they say and do is in our interests ✒️ michael2day
Ever since 1948, when Aneurin Bevan claimed he was able to persuade Britain’s medical profession to take part in the National Health Service, many on the left have been suspicious of doctors’ motives and detect in them varying degrees of avarice in addition to their medical skills.
I remember being at the British Medical Association’s press conference 20 years ago in 2003 when the Blair government agreed to give GPs. In return GPs would beef up management of the chronically ill by, among other things, providing regular blood pressure checks on patients with diabetes. Most of us wondered why they weren’t providing such basic care in the first place. The doctors’ leaders in the press conference were grinning like Cheshire cats.
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