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From: Mary Hawking [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 March 2009 17:48
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Subject: 6 working days - and still missing 4 (FOUR) DESs for 2008 2009!
We are 6 working days from the end of the NHS year 2008/09.
5 DESs - Heart Failure (1 year) and Alcohol, Learning Disabilities,
Ethnicity (includes not First Language but Main Spoken Language - don't know
what useful purpose this is supposed to serve) and Osteoporosis, which are
all 2 year DESs were agreed for 2008/09 - with the assurance business rules
would be published in October 2008..
The final approval for these was posted on 5.2.09.
Most PCTs seem to have got practices to sign up towards the end of last year
( calendar year, 2008): we got an offer for Heart Failure in, IIRC, end of
February.
The information that the DH had decided to defer the other 4 DESs to the
year 2009/10 was erroneous.
6 days to go **AND NO DES OFFERS FOR THE REMAINING 4 DESs**
Are we alone in this?
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Mary Hawking
What seems odd (perhaps not), is that the BMA and press seem singularly
uninterested in this. It seems a complete scandal and the time we are
spending discussing/griping etc (entirely reasonably) doesn't to my mind
seem reflected in the level of seriousness/lack of concern ratio higher
up...
Perhaps I am missing something, perhaps it will be a good negotiation point
later, perhaps HMG etc have bigger problems so not worth fighting, perhaps
it is a conspiracy...
We do have the LES's DES's etc but complete lack of clarity nonetheless.
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