Mary Selby: Robbing Peter to save Paul.(primary care trust contracts)

Our remuneration, in all its forms (enhanced services, core services, practice-based commissioning) is challenging the tempers of the GPs and PCT board members of our little bit of Suffolk. As one who keeps her ear to the ground, I am unsurprised at the tremors now issuing from the Asylum (as we affectionately call PCT House).

The only thing I find extraordinary is that our PCT ever imagined we would welcome its plan to save money by removing it directly from our pockets. Not since the townsfolk besieged the abbey in order to flatten the monks and acquire lots of very valuable beer for nothing has Bury St Edmunds witnessed such a blatant attempted cash grab.

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