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  To go back a bit, there was a time when you went to your doctors they would check your blood pressure as a matter of routine and if you had to call one out in the evening the chances were good that you would get your normal doctor. Now those same doctors get paid more for advising smokers to give up (with no follow through required as it is statistical evidence) than they do for being on-call. If they want to earn extra then they can take blood pressure readings from their diabetic patients and pocket a nice little earner at the same time. All of this comes from the same NHS budget that pays for NHS GP's, PCT's Hospitals, polyclinics etc. This same budget also pays for the heavily biased studies and surveys that are produced, designed to give precisely the answers they were planning for anyway. It would seem that the more money spent on an increasingly greater number of different governing bodies then the less service the patients are actually getting. The worst example of the double talk is that we are told Dover only needs a polyclinic instead of a hospital while Ashford now seems to require both. Dover needs a proper hospital, not just for the town but for the surrounding villages as well, and it is time they stopped worrying about the 'spending power' of the various sub groupings and listened to the tax payers whose money it is in the first place.

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