TY - JOUR T1 - The end of the NHS? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 290 LP - 290 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X567153 VL - 61 IS - 585 AU - John Marks Y1 - 2011/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/585/290.1.abstract N2 - Mike Fitzpatrick's article ‘The end of the NHS?’ in the March issue of BJGP starts with a quote ‘What do you call a man who ignores medical advice? Mr Clarke’.1 That was the theme of one of the British Medical Association's (BMA's) posters used in its campaign of 1989/90 against Kenneth Clarke's so-called ‘reforms’. The quote comes from Nicholas Timmins' book The Five Giants – a Biography of the Welfare State (page 471).2Fitzpatrick continues with a completely unsupported … ER -