NHS - "Should only provide Core Services"

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[b]The NHS should only provide core services because resources are limited, leading doctors have said. [b]
The British Medical Association made the recommendation in a paper setting out its vision of the future for the NHS in England.

However, it has not specified what should not be available on the NHS.

The BMA is also calling for the NHS to be managed by an independent board to take the day-to-day running of the service away from political control.

James Johnson, BMA chairman, said there needed to be an end to 'constant political dabbling' in the NHS.

Umm, can you see the flaw in the final statement?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

EH?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

the BMA is presumably not "political" in the sense that MPs are. or are you saying it actually is?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno if they are or if they aint.

More the idea of "providing core services" i.e. not the 'expensive so outsource and provide the provider with a nice profit margin" stuff...

Yeah, remove from 'political interferance' after they've basically set it as an agency into the private sector!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

are you writing in English?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I am writing in ANGRY!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

However, BMA leaders say they believe it is the best way forward, despite the lack of success of similar schemes in Oregon in the US and in New Zealand.

Oh, so THAT's alright then.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58608000/jpg/_58608374_58608373.jpg

Weird photo from the BBC site, is she blowing a bubble in protest at Lansley's plans for the NHS?

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:03 (fourteen years ago)

.. oh it's a badge, lol pic was a lot smaller on the BBC site!

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-02-17/gyHAhppCfCHjlFEqEAkegnBJcqeprADAHnorlAmCiEjDFyHpEAiunclAJeJy/Screen_shot_2012-02-17_at_22.24.05.png.scaled1000.png

http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/who-is-and-is-not-invited-to-camerons-emergen#!/

― ledge, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

conclusion: sour grapes?

― Rosie 47 (ken c), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/world/europe/uk-nhs-palantir.html

― youn, Sunday, 1 October 2023 15:06 (two years ago)

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