I spoke too soon.
Just as I suggest that the Daily Mail has got bored of baiting GPs and has moved on to managers, it switches back again.
The BMA launched its election manifesto this week. Ignoring its rather sanctimonious and prescriptive approach to public health, there’s a lot to praise. It provides a substantial and coherent argument for the need to support the NHS and its staff.
None of this, of course, interested the Daily Mail. Instead they focused on how evil GPs want divert more of the public purse their way by campaigning for longer consultations with patients.
You’ve got to admire their journalists for blindly sticking to an editorial policy that infers that all public sector workers are feather-bedded loafers who sponge off their hard working home counties readership.
Today, it’s focused on the pay of public sector leaders, sorry, fat cats; earlier in the week it was social workers; and tomorrow, well it doesn’t take much imagination to guess…
