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Sunday 28 October 2012

Mass GP exodus from Virgin Care exposes fundamental flaw in NHS & Social Care Act

This week’s resignation of 300+ GPs from established contractual partnerships with Virgin Care highlights the fundamental flaw and potential conflicts of interest in practising GP board members of Clinical Commissioning Groups allocating £60bn of NHS money each year:
http://www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=495c8dd8-07af-4a58-ba4d-0a9c9a831b4c
..Prior to this development Dr Éoin Clarke had written how Virgin Care represent ‘the greatest conflict of interest in the history of the NHS’:
http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/virgin-care-represent-greatest-conflict.html