Fifty-six doctors have written to the "Daily Telegraph" defending Andrew Lansley's NHS "reforms" and warning that derailing the Minister's plans could lead to disaster. Does this mean that, after all, Andrew Lansley is right and the majority of doctors, nurses, the House of Lords and the public are wrong? Unfortunately for Lansley the answer remains "no." The reason for this is that the fifty-six doctors are all members of the new clinical commissioning groups now terrified that their plans to plunder the NHS are under threat. "All that glisters is not gold" and not all doctors have the best interests of their patients at heart. Some of them are greedy wannabe fat cats who only entered the medical profession because they couldn't get jobs in the finance industry. All of them describe themselves as members of "The NHS Alliance, an independent, non-political organisation." This is disingenuous to put it mildly since they could hardly have expected to cash in on a NHS privatisation under a Labour government, while their use of the terms "NHS" and "Alliance" suggests a solidarity and acceptance within the medical profession that is more than misleading. Their support for Lansley's dispicable attempt to privatise the NHS and saddle us all with an American-style medical free-for-all is intensely policitcal. Whatever happened to the first principle of the Hippocratic code to do no harm?
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