At 08:28 AM 7/1/96 -0600, you wrote:
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>yCan anyone help me to understand a little about how G.P.'s are
>administered in the U.K.?
Can anyone help me to understand how G.P.'s anywhere are administered?
Here in New Zealand we are going through the same agonies of restructuring
that you describe in Canada.
I feel at times a hankering after the bad old days of 5 years ago in the UK
when G.p.'s were told that the system would change on the first day of the
month and that was that.
Here we are given 3 options of contracts and told that we can negotiate
directly with the Regional Health Authority if we so desire for a custom
made contract.
Sounds wonderful? How do you predict what will be best for your patients and
for your security? It can be a nightmare.
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>Our masters have decided that we need to look at limits to our past
>governments' health largesse, and seem to be enamoured of the British
>Model. We're to be capitated and rostered.
It's the same the whole world over as the song says:
Lead maternity carer is the latest buzz word here, and I understand from the
BJGP April a debate ongoing in the UK.
The minister of health here stated that the system would allow the
government to stop paying doctors and midwives for performing the same
services to a single patient. Be warned, the motives may look good, but
"THEY" fail to recognise that doctors and midwives offer different services
to any one patient.
I know I am not answering your question directly, but I gather from reading
the other mail that this will come as no surprise,I feel better for having
ranted a little.
This is my first mailing to gp-uk, which is as good a helpline in it's
current form as any.
Thank you for being there - virtually.
joseph [log in to unmask]
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