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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 26 November 2009
 
Ready for OffCon?

• SO there is to be another “consultation” by NHS Camden.
On the basis of recent so-called consultations, the process seems to go like this. 1: Decide what you think, from on high, is right. 2: Articulate those decisions in the form of questions to which it would be a nonsense to answer anything but “yes” or “very important”. 3: Use the result to justify what you have already decided.
One would hope that a consultation actually aims genuinely to bring the public into a decision-making process, considering real questions – such as the issues covered in the New Journal last week (Check-up: GP-led health centre guide). Unfortunately, this is not likely to happen.
Consultations over many issues are used in this shameful way. There would seem to be a need for a new regulatory body, to supervise consultations. (Camden’s Scrutiny Committee appears either not to have the powers, or perhaps just not the balls, to do this adequately.)
On the basis of recent experience in Camden, such a body might aptly be called OffCon.
Tom Osborn
Kentish Town, N7


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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