Shouldn't be a tension if everyone plays fair and above board -
Fee-generating medicolegal work is not SPA work and should be done in the
Consultants own time either on or off the hospital premesis. If you choose
to do it on trust premesis the trust is entitled to charge you a fee for use
of the room [in practice I believe this rarely happens]. Surely the "bad old
days" of the A&E Consultant locked in his office seeing dodgy punters with
"whiplash" whilst his unsupervised juniors see all the genuine patients are
over .....aren't they?????
Cheers, Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "mark nicol" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Bill Bailey" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:30 PM
Subject: grasping the nettle!medicolegal work in Emergency medicine
>I would value assistance in benchmarking how other people organise
>medicolegal work to obviate or at least minimise tensions between
>colleagues- some who do do it and some who do not?I am about to go to
>advert for two more consultants and I want to avoid applicants from
>undertaking medicolegal work without some robust line in the sand of
>acceptability.
> 1.which of the following do you agree with:
> medicolegal work (that aspect pertaining to income generating work from
> solicitors to see patients and do reports) should be done
> a) off site and in own doctors time
> b) on site but after hours
> c) on site but in SPA time and limited to 2 patients only per week
> d) on site, in SPA, no finite limit to number of patients at all
>
> Thank you for your help on this topic.Am I right in thinking this is one
> of the top three sources of tension between consultants in Emergency
> medicine?
> mark at macc
>
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