BMJ  2007;334:1343 (30 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39258.406285.DB

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BMA annual representative meeting, Torquay, 25 June to 29 June

Public backs the idea of an independently run NHS

Torquay

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More than eight in 10 respondents to a survey on the NHS said that they would like to see doctors taking a lead role in deciding what is best for their patients and how money should be spent locally.

The survey, conducted by the BMA on the eve of its annual conference of representatives, also found that support among the public for an independent board of governors to run the NHS was widespread.

Sixty per cent of the 1000 respondents to the survey endorsed loosening the government's control of the NHS, one of the proposals put forward by the BMA in its consultation paper on an alternative approach to health policy (BMJ 2007;334:969, 12 May doi: 10.1136/bmj.39210.522188.4E).

Sam Everington, acting chairman of the BMA as the BMJ went to press (a new chairman was to have been voted in on Thursday), said, "The message that comes out of . . . [Full text of this article]

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