Future breakthroughs in patient care are threatened because research and education in the NHS are being sidelined, the BMA says today (Thursday 3 July, 2008). The BMA welcomes measures announced in Monday’s (30 June, 2008) review of the NHS in England to create a body to oversee medical education. However, in a new paper today, it says many current NHS reforms take too short-sighted a view, and are jeopardising long-term benefits to patient care from education and research. For example, it says plans for new models of healthcare delivery, such as polyclinics, have not adequately incorporated education and research, and may not be obliged to provide space where they can take place. Similarly the Private Finance Initiative discourages the provision of library facilities in NHS premises because they are non-profit earning, the...
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