"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?"
"In dem Augenblick, wo die Medizin dazu genutzt wird, um Kapital zu vermehren und vor allen Dingen dann Einfluss auf die Medizin genommen wird, dann, glaube ich, verkaufen wir den Grundgedanken der Medizin."
"Wir werden im Bereich der Vertragsärzte die Regelung streichen, dass für Neupatienten deutlich höhere Honorare bezahlt werden, weil diese Regelung dazu geführt hat, dass Patienten als Neupatienten geführt werden, die gar keine echten Neupatienten sind"