Polyclinics
It is not easy at the moment to say anything positive about family doctors. Any suggestion that they may be providing a valuable service is nowadays met with a tirade of jealousy from nurses, particularly the oxymoronic “consultant nurses”, who cannot get through the day without asserting that they can do any job a doctor can do, and probably do it better. Then the right-wing Taxpayers’ Alliance wades in with one of their tabloid headline grabbing ad hominen attacks on public sector salaries.
This is a perfect starting point for the government to introduce the polyclinics. They sound wonderful, don’t they?
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Labels: dumbing down, polyclinics
15 Comments:
Good, I came here today to see what you'd say about Cameron's GP campaign.
K
Times article
and another way of dumbing down
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/yvonne_roberts/2008/04/diy_health_care.html
Isn't it intertesting that the group least likely to visit their GP is males under 45, now I wonder if the advisers and consultants making up this week's health policy would fit into this category, perhaps the red braces and blue suits are a giveaway.
As you say people are entitled to spend their money whatever way they want and that of course includes the tax payer, but they have a right to understand the purchase. Polyclinic funding is guaranteed for two years, so they may not close traditional surgeries in the first two years, but after that we will not be able to afford both and the recent record of involving multinationals in Primary Care and the resulting dumbing down of services shows which way it will go.
"Fradd the Destroyer"
Love it.
I'm somewhat perplexed that Dr Crippen, a self-confessed one-time Blairite, has chosen to publish this article in "Centre Right"....especially as he seems to despise anything published the economic voice of the centre right, the Taxpayers' Alliance.
http://tinyurl.com/3wcrbb
polyclinics are nothing new and are a proven crock of sh*te
the TPA should rename themselves 'rich bastards harping on about people who are paid a lot less than management consultants and their buddies'
I am sure they reckon inflation is all down to public sector pay increases of f8ck all.
While the privatisation of water, electricity et al and consequent above inflation price rises have nothing to do with inflation in their eyes.
The TPA seem to have a very obvious agenda and massive conflicts of interest to go with their recurrent shows of rank hypocrisy.
anonymous said...
I'm somewhat perplexed that Dr Crippen, a self-confessed one-time Blairite, has chosen to publish this article in "Centre Right"....especially as he seems to despise anything published the economic voice of the centre right, the Taxpayers' Alliance.
Monday, April 21, 2008 4:27:00 PM
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Don't be perplexed. It's easy. In 1997 I was completely taken in by Tony Blair. I genuinely thought he would improve health and education, both of which are important to me. I was conned.
I write to Centre Right because they asked me too but, yes, I am to the right of centre - Ken Clarke sort of right, if you like - but not as right wing as Tony Blair.
I strongly agree with the TPA about taxes being too high but I detest their right wing, Tory Boy, headline grabbing approach. The will do ANYTHING to get a newspaper headline, and it demeans them and makes moderate centrist people like me very uneasy.
All clear?
John
anonymous said...
I'm somewhat perplexed that Dr Crippen, a self-confessed one-time Blairite, has chosen to publish this article in "Centre Right"....especially as he seems to despise anything published the economic voice of the centre right, the Taxpayers' Alliance.
Monday, April 21, 2008 4:27:00 PM
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Don't be perplexed. It's easy. In 1997 I was completely taken in by Tony Blair. I genuinely thought he would improve health and education, both of which are important to me. I was conned.
I write to Centre Right because they asked me too but, yes, I am to the right of centre - Ken Clarke sort of right, if you like - but not as right wing as Tony Blair.
I strongly agree with the TPA about taxes being too high but I detest their right wing, Tory Boy, headline grabbing approach. The will do ANYTHING to get a newspaper headline, and it demeans them and makes moderate centrist people like me very uneasy.
All clear?
John
the TPA should rename themselves 'rich bastards harping on about people who are paid a lot less than management consultants and their buddies'
I am sure they reckon inflation is all down to public sector pay increases of f8ck all.
While the privatisation of water, electricity et al and consequent above inflation price rises have nothing to do with inflation in their eyes.
The TPA seem to have a very obvious agenda and massive conflicts of interest to go with their recurrent shows of rank hypocrisy.
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Glad you agree on that!
Shame really, because the TPA is not all bad, but they shoot themselves in the foot by offending all and sundry.
JOhn
dr john crippen, I've just had my attention drawn to this - Callum's appeal - any opinions?
K
PolyClinics
All well and good... until you get ill
To be fair, the TPA is a single-issue pressure group – Garth, I think they’d take the statement that they have an obvious agenda as a compliment, though I know you didn’t intend it like that!
In this respect they aren’t any different from a number of other single-issue pressure groups such as, say, Liberty or Father4Justice, they’ve just learnt how to give the media what it wants better than some other organisations.
"I strongly agree with the TPA about taxes being too high but I detest their right wing, Tory Boy, headline grabbing approach. The will do ANYTHING to get a newspaper headline, and it demeans them and makes moderate centrist people like me very uneasy.
All clear?"
OK.....you criticise the TPA for using exactly the same sort of attention-grabbing "Daily Mail" style headlines that you are inclined to adopt. You would be wise to dissociate yourself completely with the aims of the TPA. It's no use cutting taxes without clawing back wastage, SOME of which has resulted from inflation-busting pay increases and failure to account for the true cost of unfunded public sector pension schemes.
'Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, said last night: “Gimmicks and petitions are no substitute for tackling the real issues in primary care.
“We are opening 150 new GP-run health centres, open from 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week. And because this programme is all paid for with new money, none of it will lead to a reduction in traditional GP services.”
As a taxpayer, I do not want to pay extra taxes for people to see a GP at anytime of day or night. If they are that ill, they should go to A/E , or else wait to see their own GP. Spending the 'new' money for extra radiology services would be much more useful.
Pining for the fjords?
..........arf
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