Before Christmas I wrote a post that called into question the depth of the BMA's love for current PCT staff. I pointed out that in their latest guidance they were extolling the virtues of current PCT staff to BMA members leading clinical commissioning groups as being the best experts in commissioning. I suggested that they were doing this because in the last couple of years they have become fearful of new private sector firms selling their services to GP led commission groups.

It struck me at the time that their new found love of the skills of PCT staff was a bit short term and convenient.