Agenda 2019

  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cap-on-number-of-gp-visits-being-considered-by-tories-8632396.html A cap on the number of times patients can visit their GP in a year is being considered by the Conservative Party Cap on GP visits?   Now you will have to plan when to feel ill over the coming year and mark it on your year planner. Rather like planning your holiday in fact, if you are still able to afford one that is. I wonder if Doctors will follow the example of the travel firms and offer discounts for early bookings? Like all things emanating from Cameron and the incompetent ConDem coalition, this latest proposal is sheer lunacy.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/prescribe-cheaper-drugs-gps-told-8433635.html Prescribe cheaper drugs, GP's told Medical benefit or cost?  The decision to prescribe any drug should be based on medical benefit, not on cost. The people at NICE, Open Health Care UK and Mastodon C, Government, Jeremy Hunt and all the others really should grasp that essential truism. There is justification for prescribing a less expensive alternative drug, but only where the doctor is absolutely convinced that the medical benefit to the patient is at least as beneficial as the more costly option.