Sorry all, but I have been having an unpleasant image going round and round in my head, rather like a bad song that you keep hearing. The image I have is of a group of very fat pigs with their snouts in a trough. It used to be that these were faceless 'bankers' (I took special care typing that word) but after reading that some 50% of members of the commissioning bodies that will be commissioning health services for you and me, have external financial interests in private health companies. It looks like the trough will be getting very crowded during the course of this Government. Some of these are not for profit, like the Virgin Care Group, but others are not. So your GP may have a conflict of interest: his/her Hippocratic oath saying that he/she should do no harm, against giving you a lot of 'unnesscessary' treatments to make him more money.
Just to add to the image, GP's salaries are not on the list for regional pay deals, but nearly everyone else in the NHS is on the list for regional pay deals.
The plot thickens............................
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