I saw in the freebies that the Review Body is doing its' own survey of
OOH workload, and I wondered whether anyone knew what they were thinking
about?
I don't know about anyone else, but if I was in their small sample(which
I am not!) the figures would be distorted.
I use Healthcall from 7.00 pm to 7.00 am,with a query answering service
from 7-8.00 am. The arrival of deputising in my area has made a great
difference - I no longer work a 13-15 hour day *and* every 5th night and
weekend - BUT (sorry - it is a scream!)- it costs a lot.
Now, if the RB is expecting to use it's OOH workload survey to produce a
costing of the OOH workload, how is it going to allow for practices like
mine? we all use deputising all the time.There is an option to work
fixed sessions for the service to recoup costs - but if the selected
doctor doesn't use it, how would that affect the costing - seeing the
size of the sample - and is any allowance going to be made for people
like me who use deputising - and pay for it?
Why can't they extract the information from the last GMSC workload
survey - which, I think, was carried out *before* the new system
distorted the work by allowing a combination of actually *doing* it and
paying for someone else to do it?
Also, suppose (and I think this is a safe assumption) they get the
figures badly wrong - would it be better if they overpriced or
underpriced?
Am I missing something?
Mary
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Mary Hawking
Kingsbury Court Surgery
Church Street
Dunstable
Beds LU5 4RS
tel:01582 601289 (home)
01582 663218 (surgery)
fax:01582 476488 (surgery)
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