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NHS Reorganisation

Proceeding contribution from Joan Ruddock (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 16 March 2011. It occurred during Opposition day on NHS Reorganisation.
The right hon. Gentleman speaks of the respect that patients have for their GPs, and that is certainly the case in my area, where GPs do an incredibly difficult and demanding job. How does he think, therefore, patients and the doctors themselves regard the pressure being put on them to become managers, to adopt skills that they do not have, and being forced to do it, when they say to me that the plans are untested, potentially divisive and will take them away from their patients? Those things are actually happening. Does he think that it is ethical to pay GPs £300,000 to cut services to patients?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
525 c385 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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