Abstract
The uneasy truce1 on the medicopolitical front in Britain has progressed to a rather fragile state of peace. The result of the consultants' ballot on their attitude to the government's modified proposals for phasing out private practice from the National Health Service (NHS) was indeterminate. First of all, there was a low poll,2 with only 7039 (53 per cent of those eligible to vote) returning their papers; 5165 objected to the proposed elimination of private practice from NHS hospitals, and 5995 objected to the government's stringent licensing proposals for the private sector outside the NHS. On the other hand, 4438 . . .

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