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CARDIOVASCULAR RISK
Question and answer session
Chair: Professor Lewis Ritchie (Department of General Practice, University of Aberdeen)
Panel: Professor Martin Cowie, Dr Miles Fisher, Dr Ian Campbell, Joyce Cramer, Jillian Riley, Duncan Petty, Gay Sutherland, and Dr Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary)
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Question: I would like to ask Evan Harris what evidence there is that politicians have grasped the nettle about honest debate on resource allocation, particularly as it concerns cardiovascular disease?
Evan Harris: There is very little evidence. I would not argue for more and more resources now. The money that was announced in the budget is probably about as much as the service can take because there is such a shortage of things to spend it on due to the true constraint of staffing. What I do think, however, is that we can spend this money better. The refrain I always hear is that too much of the resource is going into secondary care because of the nature of the targets being set. I’m not arguing that the targets in the national service frameworks are wrong, but the ones we hear about are these obsessive waiting list targets and A&E
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