When your GP sends you on........

The GP's magazine Pulse reports that in several areas of the UK there is a growing trend for when Your GP decides you should have further medical assessment and attention, i.e. a referral to a hospital consultant, your referral goes to what is called a 'referral management system' and that system decides where to send you on to - or to even BLOCK your referral. This is one product of the privatisation of the NHS, taking decisions about you out of your GP's hands and making a nonsense of patient choice

In the news there is much comment about Gadhafi's demonic craziness. I think the rabid privatisation of the NHS that is going on matches that as does the persecution of vulnerable and poor people via the Work Capability test - see the article in the Guardian today. This government has a cabinet of psychopaths.

Mike.

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Just a confirmation of the search for a website host and my website ppeyes will be back on line. The functions are the same - as an independent monitor of how patient and public involvement in health is working with the addition of looking at how LINks will be set up (if they indeed are set up at all). This blog will be used for comments on current activities and developments closely allied to the website. As soon as the site is up and running I'll provide a link. Activities have extended further since ppeyes was taken off line (because it was criticising a government department - more later) in September 2005. I'm now active in service user campaigning and, being a disabled National Health Service User myself, in disability rights.

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