At 19:55 29/07/04, you wrote:
>For chairing the GMC health committee I get =A3275 a day
>Expert assessors get =A3350.
>
>I guess we do these things for the sake of our colleagues. If you techies
>don't care about the NHS IT thingy it seems to me it's fatally wounded.
>--=20
>Fay
Could be these pay rates are why there's such a problem.
I think this task is worth at least UKP 750 per day (including pension and
any other benefits) considering the level of responsibility, for what, when
all is said and done is now government work.
Strangely in another place I've been arguing against profiteering from
medical care, and using the shortage of GPs to charge exorbitant rates.
However these GMC / GPC rates remind me that if we care about our
profession's future, we should also remember that if you pay peanuts you
get... (And in this case no offence intended to present company.)
Julian
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