In a message dated 12/07/98 18:38:29, you write:
<< It seems like he's been listening to Roy Lilly >>
As someone in the area served(hah!) by Lilley's erstwhile Trust, I can assure
members that the quality of clinical care deteriorated dramtically during his
tenure. Like the other BS artist who ran his private practice in Harrow into
the ground, screwing up and then publicly blaming others seems to have been a
route to fame for Mr Lilley.
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<<Anyway, all of them keep comparing the NHS with Mark and Spencers or
British Airways. Now, forgive me for being niaive, but don't you have
to pay for these companies services?>>
Yes, you do..........and they are keen to encourage people to come through
their doors because they put more money in the tills before they leave. One of
the problems of the NHS is that it no longer serves a population who remember
or know what it was like before 1948. In consequence, a service that costs
nothing is valued at exactly that.
While I would not suggest a return to making people choose between health or
food, it seems to me that a recurrent theme in this forum is that demand is
excessive and that we are all trying to put up barriers to that demand,
whether by changing our appointments systems, educating/cajoling patients or
suggesting financial barriers. Any thoughts, anyone?
Emile de Sousa
Weary of Weybridge
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