On 03/18/98 08:17:19, "Andrew Herd" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>You are unlikely to win unless you get the support of your MP (assuming
>he/she is Labour). The government has the arm on the HAs and is committed to
>PCGs at around the 100,000 patient level. The reason for this is that they
>don't want healthcare fragmented the way it was under fundholding.
>
>This is likely to be a pretty high political priority, so I will be
>interested to see how you get on. Want a used flak-jacket?
Every campaign must enlist the support of a wide section of its
constituency *and* policy and law makers.
Politics do come into it. The campaign is not against HAs, they are
just following orders. I am after the big fish.
High profiling is just part of the process. Don't expect me to reveal
my hand in public at this stage ;-)
There is one thing I need to make crystal clear:
My colleagues and I in DFI have no objection to anyone wanting to form a
group. We just do not want that process *forced* upon us with no choice
at all. If you want to marry the girl next door, good luck to you,
but I don't have to marry her as well just because I live on the other
side of her house. The thread started as 'shotgun marriage'. That, I
wish not to have.
DFI also has a wider radical agenda and that is being discussed within
the group.
The flack-jacket would come handy, thanks, Andrew :-)
Ahmad
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