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A survey of attitudes to NHS reform among consultant psychiatrists in trust administered hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Edward Bullmore
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital
Rajendra Persaud
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
Christopher Dare
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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Most previously published opinion has indicated that the medical profession is predominantly opposed to the package of NHS reforms outlined in the Government's white paper Working for Patients and especially opposed to the administration of hospitals by self-governing trusts (Lister, 1990). Yet only Whitfield et al (1989) can claim to have independently and directly polled the opinions of a representative sample of a defined population of doctors on this subject, and their survey was published two years before NHS reform began to impinge on hospital practice.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

References

Lister, J. (1990) Reform of the British National Health Service. New England Journal of Medicine, 322, 410412.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whitfield, M., Wood, N. & Wright, F. (1989) Responses by general practitioners in Avon to proposals for general practice in the white paper Working for Patients. British Medical Journal, 298, 12241226.Google Scholar
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