Cameron to discuss NHS reforms with healthcare professionals
UK’s Prime Minister, David Cameron will hold discussions on proposed reforms of the NHS with the healthcare professionals on Monday.
General Practitioners (GPs) in the UK are concerned over conflict of interest in the proposed reforms to the NHS. They believe that NHS reforms will force GPs away from patient care. They pointed out that commissioners are finding it hard to complete assigned work as the workload is high, even as they have the support of PCTs.
The new effort is aimed at winning over the opponents of the controversial Health and Social Care Bill of the government. However, the government has not extended invitation to some of the organizations that are extensively against the reforms including Royal College of GPs.
Associations and unions representing nurses and midwives have joined other industry bodies to oppose government’s plan to change NHS in England. The Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives had already expressed concerns over the proposed changes.
Dr Clare Gerada, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, warned that the government’s controversial health Bill might covert the NHS into a ‘budget airline’ in which the wealthy will be able to come in first. In the coming future, hospitals could e two queues of patients waiting for hospital treatment – the private and the NHS queue, according to her.
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have now joined several colleges, including the Royal College of GPs and the Royal College of Radiologists to ask for scrapping of the plan to bring changes to the NHS.