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[Adrian Midgley]

From: Q G Campbell <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk>

> a large departure of GPs from NHS contracts; and

>Your actions seem to meet the interpretation of "Terrorism" given in
>S1(2). You would appear to be acting on ideological/political grounds
Good grief no.  While most of us think the citizens should get a
better deal from a better funded health service with competent
management in a structure in which they are actually able to do
sensible things...what we actually want is either much more money to
stick around in the current mess, some to keep and some to employ
others to do the bits that don't need doctors to do them, and other
better working conditions (including such things as rapid secure
communications for medical purposes).

>and pursuing a course of action which might not be violent in itself
but
>"which can, in a modern society, have a devastating impact". Such
>activity as you describe could, on the face of it, be held to put
life,
>health or safety at risk.

Sounds to me as though you have made a case that Alan Milburn like the
last three health secretaries before him is a terrorist.  I shall make
no such suggestion myself.

>It seems to me that a confrontation between a majority of GPs and the
Government is a more threatening situation

Going off topic a little here, but we are not confronting.
We are exactly saying that we are going to cease our existing
contracts if things do not improve.
IE running away rather than confronting.

The day after the NHS collapses, I shall be in my surgery which I own,
with my staff who I employ, and _at least_ as able to diagnose and
advise as I ever have been.  You as citizens might have to make
different arrangments for the fulfillment of such advice and
prescriptions than are currently in place, but I am sure you'll think
of something.

Oh, if the NHS wouldn't be meeting your medical bills then you might
want to think about that as well, in advance...maybe you would like it
to continue to do so, in which case I suggest you take an interest in
those arrangements about now.