Survey illustrates misconception of the Calman proposals

BMJ 1995;311:1298 (11 November)

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Survey illustrates misconception of the Calman proposals

EDITOR,--In their survey of consultant physicians' attitudesto the Calman proposals Hugh M Mather and Robert S Elkeles showan important misconception about the nature of those proposalsand the manner of their implementation.¹ Nevertheless, we shalldo well to heed the responses they obtained.

In summarising the Calman proposals the authors assume thatwhat was envisaged was a service essentially provided by consultantsresident on call. Indeed, they repeatedly refer to a "consultantprovided service." In fact, the Calman report referred onlyto a "consultant based service," and, while I accept that neitherof the two terms has been defined, I know, having been a memberof the original working party, that emergency services werenever intended to be routinely provided by resident consultants.The report was published less than two years after the ministershad signed up to the principles of the new deal, which includedthe three . . . [Full text of this article]

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