This post continues my interest in the role that leading organisations in the medical profession have in trying to persuade the Government to come out against competition and especially the introduction of new entrants into the NHS.

If the BMA really believed in their position of being both against the private sector providing services and competition, there seem to me to be a number of powerful things they could do. The first would be to ban their members from taking part in private medicine. By this single action they would greatly restrict the impact of the private sector on British health provision, thereby advancing a policy they favour.