In message <[log in to unmask]>, Ewan Davis <[log in to unmask]> writes >In article <[log in to unmask]>, Paul Caldwell ><[log in to unmask]> writes >>Will someone please tell me what this means in practice? I haven't a clue. >>Both thoughtful and sarcastic comments welcome. > >It means creating structures in Primary Care that can take more of the >total load of the NHS a lower cost. For example It means allowing the >overwhelming logic of Tomlinson to overcome the political power of the >London teaching Hospitals. There is a bed crisis in London - nothing to do with the teaching hospitals > >At the moment it has little substance, but it will and it won't look >much like the Primary Care you work in today. Read Choice and >Opportunity to see the shadows of Christmas yet to come. I've read it - where's Christmas? It *does* seem to involve the destabalisation of the present structure of general practice. Ewen, would *you* advise me to make any commitment to investment in my practice until the future is more clearly defined? Mary > >Ewan Davis >[log in to unmask] - Bromsgrove, UK > >Managing Director AAH Meditel Ltd - Supplier of EMR Systems. >[log in to unmask] Voice +44 (0)1527 579414 Fax +44 (0)1527 >837287 Mary Hawking tel:01582 601289 (home) 01582 663218 (surgery)fax:01582 476488 (surgery) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%