The white paper: Implications for consultants.
The NHSCA believes that implementation of the proposals in the coalition government’s recent NHS White Paper will be seriously damaging to the NHS, will restrict patient services and will cost huge sums of money which, at a time of financial stringency, cannot be justified.
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Divided BMA votes to attack white paper as 'smokescreen for privatisation' (updated - 10/10)
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White Paper Petition Update Source - NHS SF (updated - 10/10)
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BMA Council member and NHSCA co-chairman Jacky Davis explains the effects of the white paper proposals to her local newspapers:
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(updated - 08/10) - Document 2 (updated - 08/10)
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Video clip explaining how the white paper proposals will lead to the privatisation of the NHS:
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Effects on patients
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Open letter from John Lister of London Health Emergency to Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the BMA
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Lansley puts business at the centre of NHS, not patients (updated - 07/10)
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Takeover of GP services by profit-led companies threatens traditional family GPs (updated - 07/10)