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Camden New Journal - SPECIAL REPORT By RICHARD OSLEY
Published: 27 March 2008

‘I don’t think the PCT is wicked. I think it’s just out of its depth’

	David Abrahams Lib Dem councillor, chairman of health scrutiny committees “I have taken soundings on whether the scrutiny committee should hold an emergency meeting.”
	Candy Udwin Health campaigner who chaired meeting “We need a united front against these plans. We have to demonstrate that the PCT can’t get away with making decisions like this.”
	Regan Scott Trade unionist and patient “I propose the idea of a consumer boycott. “It is perfectly possible for all the other doctors who are not involved here to take a pledge that they will not work for these people in their future careers. That would influence the public, who respect what doctors say.”
	Jo Shaw Lib Dem parliamentary candidate in Holborn and St Pancras “Patients haven’t been given a choice over United Health. If, like I did, the PCT bothered to put surveys through people’s doors, the message would have been clear: people want a health service that is owned by the people and run by the people.”
	Frank Dobson Labour MP, Holborn and St Pancras “I’m sad to have to be here tonight. “I don’t think the PCT is wicked. I think it’s just out of its depth. The system where we all pay in, we pool the risk, we pool the cost of treatment – it is one of the great achievements of this country but the NHS is under threat here.”
	Wendy Savage Keep Our NHS Public “They keep saying its up to local patients to decide how they want their NHS to be run while at the same time the Department of Health pushes the PCTs to do what they want them to do. The government seems hellbent on following the American model of healthcare and I can’t understand why.”
	Dr Paddy Glackin Chairman, Camden Local Medical Committee “Camden PCT is in a dark room making decisions about what your care is going to look like. I’m pretty sure you are not involved in that decision-making. In some areas PCTs have worked with GPs and patients but not in Camden.”

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