I originally posted this blog as a comment below the original article in Dr Grumble's blog. It relates to Dr Clare Gerada being knocked off her bike, and suffering extensive injuries as a result. That is clearly dreadful, and I hope she gets better, and gets back on her bike. My sympathies are with her.
That said, now let's get down to the blog.
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I am very sorry for Clare. I too am a cyclist, and can sympathise with her for the unfortunate events.
But I have a thought: maybe Clare was trying to show by method acting the dangers of competition. Whereas her critique has generally been of those dangers in healthcare, maybe she was trying to illustrate the parallels in competition for road-space. The vulnerable get squashed.
Maybe that also explains why Clare's own GP Practice/ Partnership (The Hurley Practice) have been so aggressively competing for contracts. This may be another selfless act by Clare and her partners to illustrate the dangers by personal sacrifice. So when they are trying to partner with foreign companies or wearing down the shoe-leather by meeting with any hospital or PCT in London that will listen, with a view to opening urgent care/ walk-in centres, they are actually doing another altruistic act. (You can see their map of world domination on their website). This time they are not only illustrating the dangers of competition, they are also illustrating the dangers of fragmentation of care.
I look forward to Clare and her partners' practical demonstrations of further dangers of the health reforms. Perhaps, next time they may chose the potential dangers in practice boundaries being eroded. This they could do by signing up patients from adjacent practice areas.
All this profesional critique aside, I hope Clare gets better; and gets back on her bike. After all, the Royal College have a lot of criticisms of the white paper.
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