{"id":9702,"date":"2011-04-18T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2011-04-18T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T17:19:17","slug":"gps-getting-into-the-lifeboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/18\/gps-getting-into-the-lifeboat\/","title":{"rendered":"GPs getting into the lifeboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a great comment from one of the leading GPs in the country at the weekend, reacting angrily to the ConDems claim that 90% of GPs were showing support for commissioning by joining GP Commissioning pilot consortia.<\/p>\n<p>As he put it \"Getting in the lifeboat doesn't mean you approve the sinking of the ship.\"<\/p>\n<p>Neatly put.<\/p>\n<p>And apart from all but a very few diehard market enthusiasts in GP's ranks, whose very enthusiasm proves they do not understand in their naivete the issues they are addressing, he is typical of 89% of the 90% who may now be involved in this process. They're reluctant, but coerced. Don't mistake it for commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Only a fool would.<\/p>\n<p>That fool is Cameron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a great comment from one of the leading GPs in the country at the weekend, reacting angrily to the ConDems claim that 90%<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/18\/gps-getting-into-the-lifeboat\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}