Neither Fay not Trefor but me; I haven't been following this list
recently, but this caught my eye as I return home from fighting the
doctors corner in London again, nothing exciting, just the normal, often
hidden, prevention of heresy stuff, so I thought I would use the journey
to respond.
Your anger is the same as my anger, but I cannot agree that we need a
war of the sort you want; that war will speed up our decline and lead
to a complete loss of our profession.
This poll is NOT rigged; there are two choices A, or if it is not
accepted B; the option of renegotiating is not there - it takes two to
negotiate.
As I said if we don't take A, we get B, we lose 850 points for ever and
the PCTs get it to help the governments friends into APMS.
Do you really believe that the public would support us if we "took
action"? I do not, but they WILL support us if we defends them and
fight for their cause; their cause IS our cause most of the time.
Were they to accept renegotiation there minimum would be
Break clauses - ie re franchising triennially, we may get that to be
quinquennially as a concession
Less pensionable remuneration - perhaps essential services only
Longer hours 8 - 8 daily, perhaps less on Sundays
Need I go on?
What do I suggest?
Ensure high quality practice - and there is some less than good practice
now
Stress the benefits of modern, evidence based individualised reflective
list based longitudinal care to patients and politicians
Get our house in order- we are starting to exploit younger GPs for
better profits - and that is against the principle above.
I would go on but my food has arrived;
This was the message from 160 GPs in my area on Tuesday, the idea of
resign and fight was mention but went down like a lead balloon - too
many mortgages at one end (and this is a cheap housing area), and
pensions in sight for the other.
Will keep my eye out for the backlash
Best wishes
John
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From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Bromley
Sent: 14 February 2008 18:18
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: GPC - Turning the Tanker Can we?
GPC - Turning the Tanker Can we?
Sorry for cross-posting, but active discussions on EMIS and GP-UK list
at the moment.
There seems to be quite a number on both lists who think the proposed
ballot is about as democratic as a fixed communist election. So, Fay &
Trefor, how can we set about making our voices heard at the GPC? Who
are the best peopl for us to e-mail and who will consider our e-mails
and take action?
What does this governement have to do to us before we take action? We
have no rise in expenses for 3 years whilst costs escalate, and no
sign of any payrise. We get numerous unilateral changes in the
contract (can we unilaterally change it by the way?). Now we get this
fiasco with Extended hours. How do we get the GPC to ask the
grassroots GPs if they wish to reject option A with a view to
re-negotiating the contract. If HMG then say no negotiations, then it
is surely time for war.
Recently on Radio 4 someone from the GPC wasted the whole segment
arguing that they were in touch with and representing the GPs. Th
interviewer at the time was implying that many GPs actually favoured
the extended hours arrangement (GPC seemed to be arguing that we were
opposed to the reccomendations and they were representing us with this
view. Now we get news of the proposed ballot, and it would seem to me
that they do not give a monkeys what our views are, and hence cannot
possibly be representing us.
So Fay & Trefor again I ask - how can we turn this tanker? I refuse to
add 'Super' as a prefixe
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Best Wishes
Paul Bromley
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