Hi Mary
You wrote
>When I contacted the surgeon concerned to tell him I could not and would
>not do this, he assured me that he had had no problems in the three
>other hospitals (and these were all good,major hospitals) where he had
>worked in getting GPs to do this.
and Ian wrote
> He told me I was the ONLY local GP to refuse.
Apart from thoughtless arrogance on the consultoid's part in not writing to you
first (or contemporaneously), it is likely that practice will vary throughout
the country if previous postings are anything to go by. This is where the LMC
can be of help. We've had one or two upsets over the years since NHS
deorganisation (eg IVF) and the Forth Valley LMC has been a great help in
sorting them out for fundholding and comissioning GPs. We haven't won them all
(probably not a bad thing!) but it is one way of getting together without the
fundholding issue being a major element for the trusts to use as a divide and
rule tactic.
Tom
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