NI doctors want to meet Tony Blair

British Medical Journal,  May 6, 2000  by Linda Beecham

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Doctors' and nurses' representatives in Northern Ireland have asked to meet the prime minister about the continuing crisis in the province's health service.

The chairmen of the BMA Northern Ireland council and of the Northern Ireland board of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have told Tony Blair that the province desperately needs a healthcare strategy. They are concerned that unless this happens the new moneys announced for the NHS will be used only to address deficiencies.

As there is no effective decision making body in the province the BMA and the RCN have asked the prime minister to ensure that the healthcare policy inertia which has existed since 1997 should not be allowed to continue and that the new resources being injected are used to develop a health service that mirrors developments in the rest of the United Kingdom.

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