“special correspondent has sent us the following item:
A group of ultm-reactionary docters have formed the General Practioners Association as a result of dissatisfaction with tha British Medical Association, The B.M.A. itself, of course, is an extremely reactionary organisation, bitterly fighting Aneurin Bevan's National Health Service Act. However, it has accepted the N.H.5. and works within the framework of Governnental and ministerial machinery. The British Medical Journal, tho organ = of the B.lf.A., has appealed to those who wore dissatisfided “to think tvice about joining still another assodation and leaving at a difficult moment in its history the one body which has faithfully negotiated with govermnental and other bodies in the interests of the profession as a whola.."
The G.P.i. is the fourth doctors' organisation to come into existence, The others are the Medical Practionors Union, the Socialist Medical Associat~ ion, and, of courso, the B.Mwie
These reactionary professional movements which crop up form +ima-totime, like the G.P.A., are not serious tendencies at this stage. They do, however, make up the ingredients for a reactionary movement that could arise if the next Labour Government fails to effect fundamental changes in the system of society.