Hopefully the slate will be cleared and the medics will end up with a big
kick up their backsides. As for the PCTs I just hope they have found a
way to get them out of the system they have not done the job they were
employed to do (look after the NHS purse without detriment to the stock
holders (us)). If they are still there after the charter I hope they are
made personally responsible for any mistakes they make and not covered by
lawyers paid from the NHS purse.

It will more likely bring North Staffs PCT and others like them into line
so they act 'more caring', to enforce the North Staffs PCT approach would
not win votes. Many NHS staff either are obese or not far off being so.
So would they expect people to do a job with 'dedication' that they know
they will not qualify for equal treatment if they ever needed it in later
life?
I do know part of the original reforms was to give us (diabetics) and
other long term illnesses a lot more power that the PCTs have slowly been
trying to turn round, I hope they have now overstepped their mark and
major reforms will be brought into place to stop at least the way they
are asset stripping the NHS. Closing hospitals (many newly built ones
that will take years to pay for) hiring non medical staff (lawyers PR
companies) at massive cost to deal with the loss of medical staff and
quieten the way forward for the closure.
After our local hospital was rebuilt it is now half the footprint that
the old hospital was and that extra land was sold off. Well over 200
houses were built on that land and the local PCT is still pleading
poverty so they have closed some wards and services over the last 4-5
years. If you break a bone you can now get an X-ray during the day but on
a night you have to taken over 25 miles to get the X-ray. Either time if
there was a break that needed treatment you would have that journey in
any case because the local hospital does not do pots.
There are many who moan about the NHS. They are wrongly stating the 3
letters that should read PCT. It is the PCT that is only thing wrong with
the NHS.

I'm quite happy to have the patients' rights and responsibilities
spelled out, just so long as those of NHS staff are also.  And if one is
enforced, let the other be so as well.