POLYCLINICS AND THE FAMILY DOCTOR ASSOCIATION
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How dare you imply that we GPs don't care for our patients
Doctors' resistance to new health centres is nothing to do with protecting our profits, says Kailash Chand, GP member of the Family Doctor Association in a letter to the Guardian (11 June 2008). Polly Toynbee's comments on why the British Medical Association is campaigning to protect NHS general practice left me both angry and saddened ( Don't be fooled: this doctors' protest is all about profits, not patients, June 6). Angry because she wrongly attributes self-centred protectionist motives to the BMA (a body that I, a GP who has spent 20 years looking after patients in the same practice, am proud to represent); and saddened because she seems so far removed from understanding the way patients use their family doctor's services. ( Full article) |
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National Council on Berlin polyclinic fact finding mission
Representatives of the Family Doctor Association announced they would visit a real polyclinic and they did just that in Berlin on 23rd May 2008. Interestingly, this was a path well-trodden by senior NHS managers who had already visited the Polikum clinic, Berlin. As a result of our visit we were more positive about new buildings and co-location of services and no longer hostile but still wary of large groupings of clinicians.
Read the report here. Email your comments to Dr Taylor, Chairman. |
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Statement on Darzi Review
The Family Doctor Association will its its evidence based statement on the Darzi Review on 6th July, to coincide with the 60th birthday of NHS General Practice. For media enquiries click here. |
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