We're PMS.
I had a quick look, and it would appear that it had been written to make
it impossible to sign.
Lots of things about clause (without identifying the clause) and total
gobbledy-gook.
On the face of it, the situation is impossible all round - for PCTs as
well as GPs.
What appears to have happened is that the DOH has been unwilling or
unable (malice or incompetence?) to produce the figures and
documentation in time to allow the GPs and PCTs to study the figures and
documents, and come to an agreement on the figures and contracts which
will determine the whole future of the practice involved.
I hear that in some places, PCTs have scheduled 15 minutes for
discussion and signing..
It would take longer to sign a HP agreement!
MaryH
PS The default contract opens in Acrobat Reader 6.0.1 but the first 5 or
6 lines of each page are missing.
Is this the same in 5.x?
In message <13797807C30CD61180B8009027DE789C0A3858@connxnt>, dr brian
crowley <[log in to unmask]> writes
>At our LMC contract meeting 4/7 ago, a question was asked re the default
>contract and the answer was an unquestionable 'don't touch it'. We were told
>that it has in fact been intended for any GP who for some reason is
>physically unable to append their name to nGMS by the specified date eg
>practitioners working abroad (Iraq), or those who may be laid up in ICU
>somewhere, or caught abroad by a hurricane.
>For any one else - don't go near it.
>
>Brian
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adrian Midgley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 28 February 2004 04:58
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Default contract out
>
>
>On Saturday 28 February 2004 00:51, Trefor Roscoe wrote:
>> www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HumanResourcesAndTraining/ModernisingPay
>> /GPContracts/fs/en
>>
>> Click on default contract, the pdf don't work with acrobat 6
>
>DO we have to worry about the default contract?
>I mean, I don't since I'm PMS, but I'd assume the rest of you are actually
>unlikely to decline to sign the general GMS contract while still continuing
>to provide GMS services, whcih is th eonly way of getting onto the default
>contract, and has not been recommended by anyone involved.
>
>Feel free to make that particular stand, but I'll be surprised.
>
>
>> And it is a real dogs dinner
>Of course. Each contract replaces the current dogs' vomit of a contract.
>
>(apostrophe correctly placed - many dogs have contributed to heaving up the
>current digest of historical dinners)
>
>BTW, the version of the contract I downloaded - the PDF opens in Acrobat 5
>running on Linux. I can speak for no other combination of software there,
>but it should have been published in version 4 since the current version is
>now 6.
>
>
>--
>Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
>GP, Exeter
>http://www.defoam.net/
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Mary Hawking
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