Ahmed,
Good ideas. I also have no wish to be pushed into a PCG. So
much for our long-vaunted "independent contractor status". When
the other lot screwed us in 1990, they at least tried to claim
that they had consulted the profession. I see little evidence
of that in the current white paper and its sequelae.
The problem is that this feeble government is trying to do what
the last one tried to do - to put the blame for the inadequacies
of the NHS onto doctors, rather than onto a lack of funding
which is the fault of our society as a whole, and to continue
this fantasy that all of modern medicine can be encompassed in
the present structure and funding of the NHS without rationing.
Perhaps we should all use the "Risk Sanction"
John McGough
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> From: Ahmad Risk <[log in to unmask]>
> To: gp-uk <[log in to unmask]>; PCG-UK <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Shotgun marriage
> Date: 05 March 1998 14:31
>
> The decree is that all GPs will have to join a PCG. Period.
>
>This is akin to shotgun marriage. I have no synergy
*whatsoever* with
> the groups emerging in my area.
>
> All I want is to be left alone to get on with the job. One
that I do
> very well as documented by ample evidence.
>
> I indicated to the HA that I'd rather be dragged kicking and
screaming
> into such a forced marriage than try to save their bacon in
the eyes of
> the DoH when they report that they have had to allocate
Practises to
> groups. Kind of shatters the politicians and the power suits'
illusions
> about all GPs in an area desperate to work together and it's
all honey
> and roses.
>
> To be dragged and forced into such a liaison is nothing short
of rape.
> I'll just have to do what many people do when they are forced
into a
> relationship they don't want. Close eyes and grin and bear
until ....?
>
> I thought the world, at least this civilised one, has moved
on from
> such tactics.
>
> There are issues here of extreme importance. Clinical, moral
and
> ethical. All that we seem to be doing is what we are very
good at;
> march in a semi-coma into yet another slaughter house.
>
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