British Medicine Is Blighted By “Self-Interested, Ineffective, Squabbling” Bodies Incapable Of Providing The Leadership It So Desperately Needs, UK

Writing in this month’s edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ , argues that the “wreckage” left by MTAS* and MMC*, is a result of the lack of “coherent, strategic, high level leadership”. A body which could provide leadership for the whole profession would necessarily require the existing professional groups to surrender some of their independence - which Dr Smith recognises will not be a popular option. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Public Health on October 26th, 2007