Moneo writes: Judging success and failure

It hardly seems possible that 2017 is now behind us and we are in a new year. As so often happens between Christmas and the New Year my mind turns to what I hope will be achieved in the coming year.

I do not expect our so called negotiators to make any headway in realising any meaningful change in our NHS remuneration. Once again last year they showed their inability to seek a mandate for any action from the profession were their travails with the DoH unsuccessful. Once again the mandarins at the DoH will be drawing lots to see who gets to shout ‘boo’ at our negotiators before they run out of the door. At least we do not need to hold our breath there.