ABSTRACT

The Sunday Telegraph reported that ministers were planning a hard-hitting election campaign to conquer public scepticism over their handling of the National Health Service, something that could hold the key to election success. It reported that the British Medical Association believed that the Government could succeed only if it slowed the pace of reform or put them on hold. This chapter introduces to Silverwood, a company in Lincoln that had started a computerised agency for the provision of life assurance medical examinations. Reports circulated during the Representative Meeting that a motion of no confidence in Jeremy Lee-Potter was to be moved at the Council meeting by Simon Fradd, Ruth Gilbert, and Sam Everington — three young active and leftward-leaning members. The editorial ended Dr. Lee-Potter should stop worrying about which political party should benefit from the exposure of the deficiencies in the health service and its under-funding.