LETTERS: Patient-centred care is not about computers.

Dear Editor

Listening to Radio 4 while doing home visits recently, I was surprised and appalled to hear that the BMA considers that patient-centred medicine is achieved by patients having hospital appointments made by their GP via desktop computers.

Apparently this, rather than getting to know patients and their families and listening to them with care and concern, will prove that the new NHS is patient centred.

Presumably, the ever lengthening queue - and late appointments - will be of little importance compared to this wonder of modern technology.

I am not a technophobe - …