Joanne Shaw, vice chairman of NHS Direct, takes up the consenting opinion. While Tom Burns, chair of social psychiatry, defends this [cough] appalling [cough] practice.
I wonder what the 12,000 or so suffers of severe rheumatoid arthritis think of this practice as the NHS denies them their medication?







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