Quality care

There is concern the private sector is motivated mainly by profit Doctors, it seems, love Scotland. They have spent the week praising the approach taken by the government north of the border while attending the British Medical Association's annual conference. BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum kicked it off on Monday when he told doctors that England could learn a thing or two from the approach taken on NHS reform. He said while ministers in Whitehall had embraced the private sector, their Edinburgh counterparts had showed how it could be done without conflict and fragmentation of care by shunning firms in favour of collaboration with doctors. And on Tuesday, Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon received a warm welcome when she addressed a fringe event with some doctors telling her that they wanted to come to work in... [read full story]