"Verteilungs- und beschäftigungspolitische Zielsetzungen dürfen als Begründung für eine weitere Beschränkung der individuellen Freiheit nicht herangezogen werden, es sei denn, es wird (…) das Bild eines unmündigen Patienten, der letztendlich auch unmündiger Bürger werden muss, zum Leitbild der Gesundheitspolitik erhoben."
"If anyone is to blame for moving from a professional contract to a jump-through-the-hoops contract it is the government. All this comes, of course, from listening to management consultants who seem to think that people will work only for money and have no concept of professionalism. Professionalism is under threat. It is very sad."
"The private providers of healthcare are like the private providers of computing for Connecting for Health. These greedy people just focussed on milking the NHS cash cow for what they could get while delivering as little as they could get away with - which turns out to have been almost nothing. Why don't governments learn from their mistakes?"