At 20:45 09/11/2004, you wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Adrian Midgley
Adrian,
Thank you.
I will post the relevant part of the text.
Julian
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