From Mrs D. Money Sir: I write to you about freedom in medicine.
Hospital consultants are to lose theirs to treat private patients but how much greater will be the patienSs' loss of freedom!
At present it is open to each one of us to use all or part of the NHS to which we have contributed our taxes, and if we elect to be fee-paying that is our privilege in a free society.
Since it is acknowledged by fairminded people that the growing Private sector of medicine has a valuable contribution to make to the wh°le. there is no true reason for cutting it 0!! from its life source. And as Mrs Cow has used it herself the conclusion t°, draw is that her complacency complicity in her dealings with o'e members of the Owen working partY as she gets ready to give it the coup d,e grdce is a mask to her Governments subservience to the unions. The presencti militancy among hospital workers an even nurses has been planned for sonar time. I myself attended a conference o junior hospital workers (organised .53' NEEDLE) two years ago at which unil leaders urged disruptive action whic” could "bring the Health Service to a halt." What could be more handy Nr. throwing to the lions than the mutilated body of private practice? Diana MoneY Chairman of Lay Associate Committee, The Fellowship for Freedom in Medi. eine.
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