BMA has made a poor health bill worse

doi:10.1136/bmj.d4738

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Simon P Hambling, general practitioner1

¹NHS Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, UK

simon.hambling{at}nhs.net

Disappointingly, the BMA has not championed the benefits of bringing clinicians to the forefront of commissioning. Far too much time has been spent focusing on the weak points of the government’s proposals,1 so losing the parts that would clearly benefit health systems and patients.

Our commissioning agenda was always how to repatriate decisions from management and to drive forward collaboration and cooperation among the mosaic of service providers. The …