On Tuesday 09 November 2004 19:01, Julian Bradley wrote:
> Our PCT reckons we're obliged to provide nursing services. I won't quote
> their letter without permission but this is the nub of it.
This is not a posting on source code. (most of my email isn't, I've counted
it)
Under the NHS Code of Openness currently in operation, and the FOIA about to
be law and by administrative instruction supposed to be followed in spirit by
public bodies including the NHS administrata, the PCT is highly unlikely to
be able legitimately to show a reason for not providing the text of that
letter to anyone and everyone who might ask for it.
So post it by all means.
> Secondly I note your comment about staff funding. At no time have we been
> funded to employ nurses to provide a nursing service. I absolutely cannot
> agree with you that "the practice is funded to provide .... nursing
> services to patients". In some circumstances practice nurses are employed
> to help GPs deliver General Practice services (1). If anything else is
> required this is open to mutual negotiation, but it has never been a matter
> of contract.
I believe this to be true.
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Adrian Midgley FOIA is better than nothing
GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/
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