"remember these doctors and specialist have been trained with OUR money, graduated into a fabulously paid job at OUR expense, and now these specialist don't want to treat us because they can earn more money treating people who have gone private so they can jump their turn in the waiting list.
ALL doctors and specialist must work exclusively in the NHS for at least 25 years until their debts are paid back to the people who have invested so much of their hard earned taxes, and then and only then should these self interested professionals be allowed to do a very limited private work."
er.... hasn't everybody been trained with our money to one extent or another? Should lawyers, CEOs of large companies, plumbers, physicists all have to work for the state for 25 years??
Less than 30% of NHS consultants do ANY private work. The government screwed up the new consultant contract because they thought it would force people to do more NHS work - in fact it transpired that the average consultant did in excess of 50 hours per week for the NHS and all the sums were wrong causing a huge extra pay bill for the treasury - d'oh.
I would count non-serious repetitive use training injuries as somewhere in the sports equipment / nutrition / luxury item field that we might reasonably be expected to pay for or wait for - and I HATE private medicine
cheers P
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