New BMA president compares a third of NHS care to care in the developing world

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7355.66

BMJ 2002;325:66 ( 13 July )

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New BMA president compares a third of NHS care to care in the developing world

Linda Beecham, BMJ
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The president of the BMA has described a third of health care delivered by the NHS as similar to medicine in the thirdworld.

Giving his inaugural address to the BMA's annual meeting last week, Sir Anthony Grabham emphasised that he was giving hispersonal view. With 50 years' experience of the NHS, 30 yearsas a consultant surgeon in Kettering, Sir Anthony said that athird of NHS medicine was of the highest quality and a third wassatisfactory and adequate. It was the other third that gave himcause forconcern.

He said that he found it totally unacceptable that thousands of patients, many of them suffering, had to wait weeks and monthsfor initial consultations followed by further waits of weeks andmonths for necessary investigations. It was unacceptable thatanxious patients should wait for hours in crowded accident andemergency departments. It was unacceptable that elderly patientshad . . . [Full text of this article]

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