{"id":9622,"date":"2011-04-11T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9622"},"modified":"2011-04-11T21:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:33:24","slug":"clegg-deserving-all-the-failure-that-awaits-him-in-his-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/11\/clegg-deserving-all-the-failure-that-awaits-him-in-his-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Clegg – deserving all the failure that awaits him in his future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clegg seems to have got just about everything on NHS reofmr wrong. According to the Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clegg said GP practices would have to meet a \"whole series of tests\" before being allowed to take on commissioning functions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He seems to think GPs want this responsibility - they don't, it's being forced on them.<\/p>\n

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\"I have been very clear we are not going to allow GP consortia who are not ready to take on these commissioning functions if they are not ready by the 2013 deadline,\" he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the PCTs will have gone anyway - so there'll be a massive management void.<\/p>\n

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\"You clearly set in motion a whole series of tests to make sure they are able to take on those responsibilities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So my first response, above.<\/p>\n

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\"If they are not, they will not, and then alternative arrangements would need to be made. Asked whether the government would reconsider the plan to scrap primary care trusts, Clegg said there was no point having a \"pause\" in the legislation unless there was a proper rethink. \"I think it's a good thing that we are listening,\" he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Listening to what? The panic button going off, often?<\/p>\n

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He sought to play down party divisions by insisting that neither ministers nor his own party wanted to \"reopen the Pandora's box of the basic design\" of the bill \u2014 giving GPs more financial responsibility, reducing bureaucracy and giving local authorities a greater say in the way the health systems works.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh yes they do - it's the design that's the problem.<\/p>\n

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While NHS reforms were necessary, \"the devil lies in the detail\" of the legislation, Clegg said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like no one knows what it is - but the money is being spent anyway?<\/p>\n

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\"Everybody agrees it is right to put more financial responsibility in the hands of GPs who know the patients best, but how you do that ... the devil lies in the detail,\" he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No they don't - I don't want my GP to have the conflicts of interest this Bill introduces.<\/p>\n

And nor do I want the NHS privatised.<\/p>\n

Let's be blunt - this man deserves all the failure that awaits him in his future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clegg seems to have got just about everything on NHS reofmr wrong. According to the Guardian: Clegg said GP practices would have to meet a
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