A huge thank you to all our members in England who took the
time to respond to our survey on the Health and Social Care Bill
over the weekend. 1,890 of you responded (a response rate of 20%)
and you made your views of the current reforms extremely clear.
Some of the headline findings are:
- 84% believe that the RCPsych
should call for the Bill to be withdrawn
- 93% were not reassured by
the Government’s response to the recent Listening Exercise
- 85% believe that the current
reforms will not deliver cost-effective care
- 78% believe that the current
reforms will not improve relationships between GPs and
psychiatrists.
The full survey
results are available on our website, and we've just
issued a press release to
journalists.
On the back of this survey, and at this stage of the Bill's
passage, I am urgently calling on the House of Lords to set
up a health select committee to interrogate and debate more fully
the implications of these reforms for our patients
Our survey follows hot on the heels of a
similar survey by the Royal College of General
Practitioners.
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