I am just thinking about the amount of time I spend seeing patients and
sorting out problems for them, looking at relevant letters and blood
work, making calls, writing referrals and letters etc.
Patients just _love_ all this. It improves their chronic conditions
quite often and a bit of time in the consultation is good for acute
problems too, often enough.
I spend virtually no time on QoF stuff, other than what I would normally
do. Hint: about 99% of the time I am far too busy dealing with current
problems to spend time on preventive stuff.
As I say, patients are happy and stuff gets sorted. The larger agenda I
ignore.
Think what would happen if a lot of GP partners started working that
way. HMG would have the equivalent of a chili enema because favoured
projects would collapse _while_ GP standing with patients would go
through the roof.
Declan
<<Methinks that if there is any further serious mention of capping GP
pay then our reps should be mentioning work to rules - i.e. nothing to
directly affect patients or patient care, but think what we could do
in the amount of goodwill that we are putting in at the moment.>>
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