It is extremely difficult to explain to non -Moody the importance of February 11, 2016 in the case of medical care in England.

You will definitely not get a balanced vision from the main media, which seems unable to analyze the issues. It seems that the pleasant spectrum provided by the press offices is easy to renew as a reality while ignoring the complications.

The bald facts are that the Foreign Minister of Health decided to impose a new contract on novice doctors (that is, a person who is not a consultant or GP), in the declared belief that he works on about seven days of NHS (whatever that). He uses some statistics chosen for cherries to support this (although authors are not satisfied with his nomination for their data in a selective way), and he tries to take the ethical high land.

The imposition of a contract on people with very smart, and they have high motives and have convertible skills is a recipe for departure, retirement, resignation or immigration: this will happen with record numbers during the next few years. You do not treat professionals like this: If you stop treating people as professionals, they will stop behaving like professionals – they will not think about covering difficult transformations, they will work on their contract and nothing more. This is the rule of unintended consequences.

During the next few months, I will tell the unintended consequences of this rash decision, and I refer to where things can be changed for the better.

February 11, 2016 was the day when NHS started to die.

Cry on what we are about to lose.