So to turn this into a positive... we should be out there in the popular press saying "No restriction on access to LM investigations", "Turnaround times faster than ever", "My life was saved by measuring plasma potassium" etc.
Possible reasons we aren't doing this?
* Personality types of people running Laboratory Medicine Departments?
* We're too busy working on other people's concept of "Modernisation"?
* We're too busy improving minutiae of internal documentation?
* We're scared of workload going up because of the artefact of the way we're funded?
... and of course it's easier for journalists to write about bad news than about good news.
Jonathan
On 8 Sep 2011, at 12:00, <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2011 at 8:58, Jonathan Kay wrote:
>
>> http://www.gponline.com/News/article/1089428/exclusive-pcts-restrict-a
>> cces s-diagnostic-scans/
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8748093/NHS-managers-rest
>> rict ing-access-to-crucial-scans-and-tests.html
>>
>> From what I could tell they didn't ask about access to Laboratory
>> Medicine.
>
> Jonathan:
>
> And on front page of the Daily Mail . . .
>
> Best wishes
>
> David
>
>
>
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