{"id":1700,"date":"2010-07-09T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2010-07-09T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:07:55","slug":"1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The NHS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reforms proposed by the Government to put GPs in charge of the patient and therefore where and how they should be referred, returns to the basic principle of healthcare.\u00a0This is that\u00a0the two people\u00a0 at the core of a coherent approach to solving health issues are the personal doctor and the patient. Between them they decide what to do next in a caring,\u00a0practical and cost effective world, which gives primacy to patient well being. \u00a0At present the communication between doctor, patient and hospital is interrupted by the bureaucratic overlay of Primary Care Trusts and\u00a0Strategic Health\u00a0Authorities, which is costly and inefficient. Worse it has become an industry in itself, with the patient as little more than a passing statistic like a\u00a0traveller in a motorway diner.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently \u00a380 billion is to be released to GPs, much more of which will be available to fund treatment than at present.There will be protests and many jobs will go. For those who will need to re-establish a new career one must have sympathy, but restoring the balance in favour of front line care is long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>These proposals are exactly on the principles set out in my book <em>2010 A Blueprint For Change.<\/em> It looks as if at least somebody read it. Or maybe it is just that Great Minds&#8230;&#8230;..!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHS The reforms proposed by the Government to put GPs in charge of the patient and therefore where and how they should be referred, returns to the basic principle of healthcare.\u00a0This is that\u00a0the two people\u00a0 at the core of a coherent approach to solving health issues are the personal doctor and the patient. Between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}