Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me - Would we? Could we?
The Way We Were
©Am Ang Zhang 2011
Professor Allyson Pollock:
Since 1948 the government has had a
duty to provide comprehensive healthcare free at the point of delivery. This
duty is underpinned by structures, systems, and mechanisms that promote
fairness and efficiency in resource allocation and facilitate planning of
services according to geographical healthcare needs through risk pooling and
service integration. These mechanisms have been eroded by a succession of major
regulatory changes, including revision of funding and responsibility for
provision of long term care; creation of an internal market; introduction of
private providers and capital through the private finance initiative,
independent treatment centres, foundation trusts, and the 2004 general practice
contract; and creation of a tariff system of payment for providers.5 We examine
the proposed statutory protections of the duty to promote and provide
comprehensive care in the bill.
Read the full account here >>>> Abolish
NHS: Allyson Pollock BMJ 2011
How the secretary of state for health proposes to abolish the NHS in England
Allyson M Pollock, professor and director, Graham Kirkwood, research fellowCite this as: BMJ 2011;342:d1695
Allyson M Pollock, professor , David Price, senior research fellow
Professor Ashton:
As we struggle to prevent a misguided Secretary of
State for Health from progressing his malign Health and Social Care Bill, it is
worth reflecting on Titmuss's comments on the ethics and economics of medical
care: “I happen to believe”, he says, “that the conflict between professional
ethics and economic man should be reduced as far as humanly possible.” It is my
contention that nobody should be allowed to dismantle the NHS if they have not
read, understood, and digested the writings of Titmuss and his colleagues. As
we stand on the verge of possibly irreversible damage to one of the hallmarks
of what it is to live in a civilised country, it is time to rise up and defend
an institution that was built by our parents and our grandparents and which we
owe to our children and our grandchildren to maintain and to pass on to them
and to their guardianship.
5 comments:
Interesting discussion here Am Ang with Professor Allyson Pollock and David Price re “The Professional Case for Withdrawing The Health and Social Care Bill.”
Anna :o]
That link doesn't appear to work so in full (fingers crossed)
http://vimeo.com/38505839?utm_source=Allyson+Pollock+newsletter&utm_campaign=c9855c1783-House_o
Anna :o]
Most confusing! Hope this works!
http://vimeo.com/38505839
Anna :o[
That doesn't work either! Key in vimeo.com and when on page key in allyson pollock and you will get there - title in first comment.
I may now go and hang myself...
Anna :o]
Thanks. Yes I saw that.
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