Let doctors fix the NHS
17th Nov 2006, 06:52 GMT
Clinician led management can fix the NHS, argues a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. He calls on the government to let clinicians and managers plan and run their services free from political control.Senior medical professionals are often branded as opponents of reform, writes David Flook, Consultant General Surgeon at the Royal Oldham Hospital. But most medical personnel support changes, they just oppose "the cynical, superficial reforms through which politicians have exploited the NHS."
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