I Don't Beleeeeve It!

[davebro]

Couple of news items grabbed my attention (for the wrong reasons):

GPs can stop doing what they should be doing in order to administer booster jabs AND will be paid £15 per jab / £20 on Sundays.

Rural areas may get USA-style Governors. More jobs for the boys & another level of bureaucracy?

I give up!

[woofgang]

oh NJ, GP's have always been private contractors right from when the NHS was established

[New Judge]

//...money paid for vaccinations is not clear profit. it also covers paying admin and nursing staff, extra use of protective gear,//

My GP practice has three times as many admin and nursing staff than it has doctors. Many of the functions once provided by practice nurses (smoking clinics, baby clinics etc.) have been abandoned and I don't know what those people are now doing. I have had six jabs in the last six months or so (3 x Covid, 1 x 'flu, 1 x shingles, 1 x pneumonia). All have been provided away from my GP's. All were administered by a practitioner wearing a mask. And that's it. If a GP surgery administers 50 jabs a day (not difficult: 4 an hour for two practitioners for six hours a day), that's £750. Five days a week will net £3,750. You can buy a lot of masks with that.

//oh NJ, GP's have always been private contractors right from when the NHS was established//

Yes I know that. It should never have been set up that way and successive governments have had over 70 years to put it right.

[THECORBYLOON]

"No other major business could run its services with such a high percentage of one of its principle groups of workers are part-timers."

If a business needs a certain number of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) employees, as long as the total of hours they work is equal to the FTE requirement, what's to prevent all the employees being part-time?

[calmck]

Our family doctors work from the local health centres. Since Covid appointment times have been extended to 7pm. As I have insurance and a private gp I released myself from the govt. doctor so someone else could be assigned. All my vaccinations are free at the health centre and now at the new vaccination centre. The grandkids are called to the vaccination clinic when these are due and at 10 years have a consult with a paediatrician to discuss diet, health concerns puberty etc. This is ongoing despite Covid. Something seems to have gone awry in the NHS I trained in. The demise of matrons being one

[Peter Pedant]

// //oh NJ, GP's have always been private contractors right from when the NHS was established//

he is a judge for chrissakes it doesnt matter WHAT the world is like out there

and anyway wht on earth is the Min doing trying to dictate the order of priorities of GPs - the min doesnt employ them ( see above)

you have 100% of GP time and you stipulate ( as Min ) record keeping and audit, lesbian studies, advanced vacca trg, more audit, perinatal rounds, mothers in something - (lactation, agony, wanting another child, choose two only)

and THEN you say - and vacca 5 to 10 y olds
and someone says - we can't - but we will in extra time if you pay for extra time

and if you wont pay then ask a hospital junior doctor ! - - ho ho ho little christmas joke

( long whimsical post for - "24 h in a day and you have to prioritise")

If you dont understand ( that would be 100% of AB) then you havent done 6 y in med school

[bobbinwales]

Nj as the doctors are private contractors why does it matter to you or me how many admin staff they choose to employ. I'd rather the GPs focus on non admin

[New Judge]

//...the min doesnt employ them ( see above)//

No it doesn't. But the taxpayer pays them for the work they do for the NHS and they are principally gatekeepers to most NHS services. If patients have to rely on GPs to access those services the NHS needs to ensure that there are sufficient GPs and that patients can access them.

[William51]

You are right. I may be prejudiced but America has a lot to answer for in the way we adopt some of their foreign methods. Or is it our own fault for copying their ways?.