I find this deeply depressing. Just seen a patient yesterday who
suffers from epidermolysis bullosa, young and keen to work but not
able to do the warehouse job she had been in due to inability to wear
saftey boots.. Came to see me as the Job centre had told her she would
be better going on incapacity rather than looking for work. I
suggested she see the disability employment advisor. SHE TOLD ME IT
WAS HIM WHO HAD SENT HER!
Right hand and left hand??????????
Cheers Geoff
On Nov 23, 2007 8:59 PM, Cherry Cullen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> I asked the committee member of the Nurse Practitioner Association if I
> could post her email to
> this group. I think the issues she discusses are very relevant. Committees
> up there at decision making level
> do not seem to know all the issues involved for us in Primary Care. I am
> not sure they always invite the
> right people to come and discuss things. The NPA committee members are
> trying very hard to go to these
> discussions and put the point of view of both Primary Care and Nurse
> Practitioners.
>
> It was quite sobering to discover someone important up there in the DOH was
> not aware that the RCN was
> (is) a trade union and a professional organisation and has several thousand
> members (38000). So they had invited
> Unison to their meeting but left the RCN out entirely! This was for a
> discussion about modernising professional regulation.
>
> Cherry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi All
> Thought I would just report back from a stakeholders day held yesterday
> at the RCN looking at solutions to the problem of getting people back to
> work. I did not realise how many people were involved-nor did I realise
> the complexity of the problem-I am very glad I went as I was the only
> person -NP-representing general practice (although all were invited)
> and I had to be fairly vociferous in order to put the primary care
> general practice perspective across-it was a genuine day of mutual
> learning!!
> We were addressed by Dame Carol Black who is the lead on Health Work and
> Well being and leading on the UK strategy which will inform the
> Government and other interested parties of the major contribution the
> nursing and medical professions does and can make to improving the
> lives of working age people -it is not as I had thought about fraud and
> shirkers although the new plans might tease this out! It is about
> negotiating with employers and industry to enable flexible working for
> people with long term health conditions-it is about a "fit certificate
> as opposed to a sick cert-"the can do approach" as opposed to the what
> you can't do. Now I had to say that I thought we already have enough to
> do in 10mins app so our group suggested we had OH nurses to refer to in
> primary care where this could be negotiated and the OH nurse can use her
> skills to communicate with employers etc etc-anyway loads of ideas. I
> would not be surprised if the sick cert for longer than a month/ 3 weeks
> goes and apart from those who have had routine surgery with suggested
> times off (new guidance would be issued) everyone off longer would be
> assessed by an OH person..
> The RCN learning Zone with this subject is launched this week-please
> have a look as we did contribute.
> Did you know it cost 12 billion pounds to keep people off work last
> year-that would buy some occy health!!!!!!!!!!!!! It seems to be all
> about appropriate employment for those with health issues with the clear
> message that work is good for your health.
> Whether we will need/be able to sign sick certs is another matter and I
> cannot see it happening for what might possible be a short length of
> time-change in the law etc. I have to say that I think this pathway is
> probably much better and I will c/t to feed into the discussions. There
> was a lady from the department of health there who is a key player and
> she was most interested in NPs! She and I are going to meet and I will
> also be involved in a focus group to keep our end up -so to speak-anyway
> all good stuff
>
>
> [
>
> __._,_.___
> .
> __,_._,___
--
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments unless by prior
arrangement.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
|