BMA statement over the potential effects of Brexit.

[PMRpro]

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This is from VascultisUK and purely for information, I thought people might be interested.

As Suzy says - please don't be offensive about itl

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

As has been stated, worse case scenerio highlighted - as you would expect, but a trifle worrying nevertheless.

Let’s just hope common sense prevails........

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

As has been stated, worse case scenerio highlighted - as you would expect, but a trifle worrying nevertheless.

Let’s just hope common sense prevails........

[Hidden]

A brief summary, please. I'm more worried about the food price, going up.

[Polymialgia in reply to Hidden]

I think we are all going to have to get used to paying at least 10 per cent more for our food , cars and anything else we import from Europe, there will also be shortages and we’ll have to go back to eating home grown seasonal food, all in all a step back to the 1950’s and I’m pretty sure it will take the country at least 50 years to recover

[Hidden in reply to Polymialgia]

There's always China. In fact, it would be a whole lot cheaper than importing EU products. Have you seen their food in China town? They are all imported, and fresh as if it were picked 30 minutes ago. Magic.

There are good and bad, good/or great if these are positive effects, bad if there is a downside(s). Your house price will definitely go down once affluent citizens are driven out, but then more British younger people can finally afford it. It's a hard one to decide. Yes, you/we would be poorer. NHS service-wise, I have witnessed the gradual decline on NHS, good old school, caring consultants leaving the UK. NHS needs a fundamental change in how they work, too. They need to be patient-centred rather than their rigid diagnostic protocol centred approach, that systemically failed patients, who have chronic illnesses. Holistic approach used by functional medicine probably goes a long way and NHS should provide it. If they are not trying to make patients better by their existing services, they need to re-think their whole institutional, cultural issues (top down, doctor-led, diagnostic procedure-led, whilst patients are not heard or treated as a passive existence etc).

[SheffieldJane]

Thanks for posting this.

[Telian]

Thanks for this. Same as usual for me, mind in a whirl about how it will affect everything. We see food prices have gradually risen in the past year. I can't work on the unknown so in the meantime, as we're in it together, I won't worry needlessly either - important as it is......

[Thomas45]

Speculation is not fact. The BMA is a Trade Union. Taxpayers subsidise the doctors' membership fees. What the BMA wants for its members should have been published years ago, prior to the Referendum.

[nevagivup]

it was in the national press. Pointing to it here has aroused ire and personal political arguments, which to me is not the purpose of this forum. I want to know, as many others will want to know, only how others are coping with their PMR GCA and to learn from them. Maybe sometimes my comments on my personal experience of PMR is helpful to othes, too.