RCGP: Patient services must be safeguarded
Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, comments on her organisation’s letter to prime minister David Cameron about NHS reforms:
“We understand that the NHS needs to change, and we have said all along that the College is not opposed to health service reform.
“The RCGP will continue to promote the development of high quality, effective patient centred care, with GPs at the heart of NHS service delivery.
“The reforms promote competition without sufficient clarification of how services to patients will be safeguarded and improved.
“We believe that provider side reforms could deal with many of the issues without the need for repeated organisational change or by many of the proposed reforms.”
