Quite. I reckon the rejection of the new contract will be the taken as
'proof' that doctors:
- put their own interests above their patients
- just want a bigger slice of the cake
- think they're above their employers
- won't account for their time (earning money elsewhere?)
- only want to work the way they always have done
- have no solution to the ever growing problems in the NHS
- think the NHS exists to give them a job
- are the biggest obstacle to reforming the NHS
- couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag, but won't let anyone
manage for them
As with any spin, the emphasis is on the half-truth that's correct - any
argument in our support will simply be ignored. (Joe Public isn't going
to be interested in whether the BMA did a good/bad job of negotiating
the new contract)
Not wishing to be a prophet of doom, I think we're about to be hung out
to dry. Put it this way, if you were a political party who staked the
next election on reforming the NHS, and the key stakeholders in service
delivery refused to sign up to new ways of working, you're going to pull
out a pretty heavy blunt instrument and show you can use it. Am I wrong?
Howard Simpson
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From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
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Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 07:43
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Subject: Re: Consultant Contract UK
> The BMA have made the fatal error that is the weak flank of any
powerful
> representative body. They felt that the issue in question was too
> important to be comprehended or dealt with by the people they
represent.
>
> >
> >The BMA have to think its future carefully or it could self-destruct.
> >
> The entire lot of them should go back to their practices and stay
there.
> (Opinion moderated due to handgun ban!)
Too late as far as Secretary of state concerned already signed and
sealed. The negative spin has already started, the Consultants from
Scotland and Northern Ireland accepted. The greedy consultants from
England and Wales rejected a 20% pay rise etc etc
Danny McGeehan
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