Are GPs radical enough to quit the NHS?

25 Jan 08

The Government, which does not appear to value its GP workforce, hopes to gain some political kudos. In the short term it may, but I wonder if the profession has not had just about enough of bully-boy Gordon Brown and his cronies.

Perhaps it is showdown time. Time to regain the professional status and self-respect of a once-admired but now usually denigrated profession.

I think the only way we can do this is to unshackle ourselves from the chains of our paymasters – we should resign en masse from the NHS.

While it would be painful in the short term I believe we, the patients and our healthcare system will all benefit in the long term.

Are we radical enough to do this?

From Dr David North-Coombes, Chertsey, Surrey