Electoral reform of GMSC

EDITOR,—As a member of the General Medical Services Committee of many years' standing who may have to answer to an electorate of ordinary general practitioners, J David Watts has one view of the need for changes in the method of election to the committee.1 I, as one of those ordinary doctors, have another view.2 It is perhaps understandable that they differ considerably. I am grateful to Watts, however, for telling us why Leicestershire's motion at the BMA's annual representative meeting last year was deliberately placed low on the order paper.

What Watts seems …