Clive Peedell
North East
NHS Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Member of BMA Council (my views are personal)
Member of BMA Political Board
Member of Keep Our NHS Public (KONP)
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Comments (51)
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Comment on: Paul Corrigan on suspending NHS incentives
Dear Professor Corrigan, In your last sentence you state that "competition between hospitals as an incentive saves lives". However, you have provided absolutely no evidence to back this statement. In fact you actually state that "Of course, a single research report will never clinch what is essentially a political argument"! In addition, the paper you quote at the beginning of the article was not published in a peer reviewed journal and the lead author is Zack Cooper, who trained under, and has co-authored articles with the pro-choice guru, Julian Le Grand. As you know, Prof Le Grand is the architect of much of the pro-choice agenda. Even if there is evidence that AMI mortality is reduced, you still cannot conclude that lives are saved , because you have not looked at overall hospital mortality. The research is serioulsy flawed and will never see the light of day in a peer reviewed journal. Hence it has just been churned out in to the ether directly form the LSE in order for people like you to take political advantage. No wonder the profession of Economics is in such turmoil at the moment. The HSJ is letting far too much unevidenced material to be published. We seriously need some decent external editorial review of these opinion pieces.
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Comment on: The money makers at the BMA
Anonymous at 3.30pm, A few final points: 1.This thread was started by Mr Vize's vitriolic and unsubstantiated attack on the BMA. 2. The two EDMs I have been involved in both made into to the HoC debating chamber. I was present in the public gallery for one of the MMC debates. Much of this depends on how much MPs are lobbyied to sign up. 3. Only politicians can change policy, so the BMA clearly has to interact with politicians. 4. It is comical that we have an anonymous poster, clearly too fearful to reveal their identity, trying to silence someone else form speaking out! The number of anonymous posters on the HSJ website is a testament to the culture of fear that is rife within NHS management.
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Comment on: The money makers at the BMA
It's not just the majority of doctors that support the campaign: The following is a BMA generated Early Day Motion, which was tabled by Diane Abbott MP and others in support of the LAON campaign. EDM 889 COMMERCIALISATION OF HEALTHCARE PROVISION 22.02.2010 Abbott, Diane Hopkins, Kelvin Jones, Lynne Pelling, Andrew Taylor, Richard That this House believes that for the NHS to provide high-quality, comprehensive healthcare for all, free at the point of use, it must be publicly-funded through central taxation, publicly provided and publicly accountable; is concerned about the damaging effects on our health service that commercialisation of the NHS is having through market reforms including the use of independent sector treatment centres, imposed GP-led health centres and polyclinics, the transforming community services initiative and expensive private finance initiative projects; further believes that public money should be used for quality healthcare and not profits for shareholders; further believes that the NHS should care for patients through co-operation and not competition; supports the British Medical Association's call to abandon the market in the NHS in England; and urges Government to restore the NHS as a public service working co-operatively for patients, not a market of commercial businesses competing with each other for financial gain.
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Comment on: The money makers at the BMA
Now that we have had a debate about what the editor of the HSJ thinks about the motives behind the BMA campaign, can I ask a morepertinent question regarding what people think about the market reforms of the English NHS? What are the pros and cons? Do you think the BMA are right to raise this as an issue?
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Comment on: BMA extends campaign against NHS privatisation
Steven, You are quite right that food is a commodity and that is why it suits being marketed. Like many "public goods", healthcare cannot be easily itemised and priced ie commodified. This is why the DH are having such problems with HRGs. In addition, unlike food, healthcare can be prohibitively expensive and unaffordabale to indivduals e.g would you fancy paying for a week on ITU? It therefore requires pooling of risk and according to Derek Wanless, the best way to do this is by publicly funding it. Your example of food is therefore not a good defence of your argument. Before you criticise the BMA, you might like to state you own COIs as a Director of a commercial company that could financially benefit from a market based system paid for by the taxpayer.
