GPs are exhausted, A&E is overrun and hospitals are broke. What went wrong? Each day this week we are looking at key election issues. Today we examine the NHS, and the claim that the coalition’s plan for market-based healthcare was based on a mistaken belief that doctors are driven by self-interest.
When Stephanie Di Georgio, a Kent GP, sat down at a medical conference last year in Liverpool to hear the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, she expected to be annoyed. A partner in a busy practice by the sea in Deal, Kent, she had almost given up on medicine because of the stress of dealing with shrinking budgets while the pressure built up to do more.
So much was done so fast in an unprecedented squeeze Continue reading... The Guardian
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When Stephanie Di Georgio, a Kent GP, sat down at a medical conference last year in Liverpool to hear the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, she expected to be annoyed. A partner in a busy practice by the sea in Deal, Kent, she had almost given up on medicine because of the stress of dealing with shrinking budgets while the pressure built up to do more.
So much was done so fast in an unprecedented squeeze Continue reading... The Guardian
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- The NHS - reform or ruin? PharmaTimes
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