Royal Colleges must act over Health and Social Care Bill.

摘要

Despite intense lobbying during its passage through the UK's House of Commons, the Health and Social Care Bill now passes to the House of Lords and will enter into the Committee Stage on Oct 11. We are extremely concerned that, should this legislation be passed, we will be taking yet another step down the road towards a fully private insurance system. The National Health Service (NHS) will be fragmented and its assets will be stripped by private providers looking to run services with profits at the heart of business, not patients.As junior medical professionals, and as both current and future members of the Royal Colleges, we call on the Royal Colleges to canvas the views of their members to make the necessary representations to the House of Lords while the Health and Social Care Bill is debated and amended.