Just want to point out that it is NOT a Christian medical centre. There is no such thing.

The Primary Care contract clearly states it is contracted to operate within the terms of the PCT equality scheme and equality legislation. The PCT (local health authority) commissions care that is equal, accessible to all and patients should not have to put up with this, any more than a pharmacist should be able to refuse to supply morning after pills when he / she is the duty pharmacist and there is nobody else to sign and dispense. If you come across religious overtones in your NHS care, somebody is not doing what is expected of them.

In addition, patients are seen by GPs, and GPs have clear obligations as to influencing vulnerable people, and even clearer obligations under the Hippocratic oath with regard to using their medical expertise without fear or favour.

Hence this GP is answering to his professional registration body (GMC) for the allegations.

Once very good reason I get rather agitated about this is that in a hospital, people of faith, and I am talking especially about Islam here.. leave their faith at the door. Hence a Muslim nurse will give personal care to a man. A muslim doctor will carry out an intimate examination or procedure on a person of the opposite sex etc. If we allow faith to enter healthcare in any way other than chaplaincy for those who would be comforted by it, it would open a huge can of worms, and not just wearing crosses and asking people if they have let Jesus in their lives.

It is not about persecuting Christians. It is not about stifling peoples' right to express their faith or any other related tosh. On that basis, if your boss asks you where the report is and you say Jesus told you to flush it down the toilet.....

I have always supported the concept of freedom of religious expression. I have also supported the notion that it is not used to influence the lives of those who don't want to play. I have noticed a push recently by leaders in the Christian world, especially here in The UK to play the "persecution" card in order to have more influence in society.

Stop it. It is doing your cause no good. All it does is entrench the position of those of us who only wish to be governed by those we vote for. You carry on singing in church on a Sunday and I will carry on singing on the Kop at Hillsborough on a Saturday. We all have faith, we all need to express it. I express mine at the temple of soccer. (I bet my faith is tested more often than yours...)