Tuesday, 21 February
As you know, we surveyed our membership at the
end of January to gauge psychiatrists’ opinions on the Health and
Social Care Bill. We swiftly anaylsed the quantitative responses to
help us formulate a College statement clarifying our position on
the Bill.
It’s taken us a bit longer to analyse the many
qualitative responses, but I’m pleased to say this work has now
been completed. I'd encourage you to take look at
the full findings.
As you’ll see, the qualitative responses
reinforce what we already know from the quantitative responses. But
they provide a much richer dataset, and show exactly where many of
our members’ concerns lie – particularly around privatisation,
fragmentation, and the impact of competition.
Last week, many of you will have seen
Dame Shirley Williams calling for the government to drop the most
contentious part of the Bill – the chapter on
competition. I’d be very interested to hear what you think of her
suggestion. As always, you can let me know using the feedback form
below.
Sue
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