http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/10/25/richard-smith-at-last-a-consumer-led-nhs/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/10/25/richard-smith-at-last-a-consumer-led-nhs/#comment-16274 Nic Robertson Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:46:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=21680#comment-16274 You write: “The two driving principles of the new NHS Commissioning Board are transparency and participation”. In the interests of transparency, please can you provide details of the membership and sources of funding for the Cambridge Health Network who hosted this meeting? Without this information the Competing Interest statement is incomplete.

]]> http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/10/25/richard-smith-at-last-a-consumer-led-nhs/#comment-16271 notactualsize Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:15:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=21680#comment-16271 We surely need to know how many people responded to the informal poll you cite in your PS: you quote percentages only, I think.

]]> http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/10/25/richard-smith-at-last-a-consumer-led-nhs/#comment-16269 kidmugsy Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:46:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=21680#comment-16269 “patients are empowered … and are more responsible for their own health”: when I have felt reasonably well I have been taking more of the decisions about my own health. When I have felt woefully ill, I have been in no state to do so. This new doctrine could become a justification for medics to shrug off all responsibility for their illestl patients

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