PATIENTS SUFFER UNDER DRAWN-OUT BATTLE - BURSTOW

6.00.00pm UTC (GMT +0000) Mon 20th Oct 2003

Commenting on the BMA announcement that senior hospital doctors in England have voted in favour of a new NHS contract, Paul Burstow MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, said:

"Ministers must stop micromanaging the NHS and let frontline staff get on with the job.

"An agreement may have been reached on this contract, but doctors will still find their work distorted by political targets, which stop them from treating the sickest quickest.

"The chaos and uncertainty surrounding these negotiations mean that it is difficult to say who the winners are. But we know who the losers are: the patients who have suffered the consequences of this drawn-out and bitter battle."

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