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    NHS shakeup may destroy patients' trust in GPs, says BMA leader

    Family doctors 'will have to ration care and risk being seen by patients

    as agents of state'

    Dr Mark Porter says GPs are being 'dragged away' from their duty to put

    patient care first.

    The coalition's NHS shakeup could destroy the trust between GPs and their

    patients by making family doctors responsible for the rationing of treatment,

    the leader of the medical profession has warned.

    GPs would be at risk of being seen as "agents of the state" who are implementing

    government cuts once the historic change in their role takes effect on 1 April,

    Porter, chairman of the ruling council at the British Medical Association (BMA),

    said doctors were worried that their role in deciding which patients got access

    to which treatments, as a result of the formation of 211 GP-led clinical

    commissioning groups (CCGs) across England, would prove divisive and unpopular.

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