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Sunday, September 24, 2006Something strange is happening in the NHS [National Health Service]. Something important is quietly dying. I don't think it is too fanciful to call it the spirit of medical professionalism. And we, the medical profession, are watching it die. Far from being privatised, medicine in England has become ever more a creature of the state. All that has really changed ... is who does the kicking and who is kicked. Increasingly centralised decision making, driven by a political imperative for constant reform, has left us victim to 'a patchwork of mutually contradictory ideas struggling for dominance.' We, too, are at risk for this, with each new government mandate and "quality assurance" initiative. The people who pay the bills are deciding the definition of "quality" in medicine, and it is too often a politically based, not medically based, definition. posted by Sydney on 9/24/2006 08:03:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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