David..I'm not from Wakefield, and this is not personal but...
AAARRGHHHH! You cannod be seeeryus! Sub-groups! Mega-group! More (unpaid)
meetings!
I went into fund-holding because a) they (unofficially) bribed me b)I
thought it would be a good opportunity to hold a stick to the HAs by saying
'either pay us properly or take it all back and do your own bloody work
(when they no longer had the capacity to). What happens? The keenies hold
more and more meetings (unpaid) because they are trying to burn out or
because they are afraid of losing their staff or they think they have some
influence.
Another thread here..meetings for a couple of brownie points is not being
PAID. We were ripped off with the PGEA system in the first place, and these
meetings, whether FH, locality commissioning or PCG can in no way be called
education..it's just another (cheap) way of buying (cheap) GPs time.
I have told my authority that I am not prepared to go to any more meetings
unless I am paid CASH. They want GP involvement so they should pay, and
proper rates too. Here I am prepared to accept the PGEA analogy..if it is
2360 quid for 30 hours a year, then 78 pounds an hour for meetings is quite
fair. Needless to say this must not come out of the GP pool. Anything less
and they can stuff it. But I am sure there will be people, some on this
list, who bleat 'either we get in and control it or the HA will control
us'. Also there are those who let their colleagues down by taking their own
30 pieces of silver for 'management' duties to run the groups, especially
if they haven't got the stomach to stay as full-time GPs (no blame on that
point, even though I'm fortunate enough not to be one)
All PCGs will entail is more and more work, more meetings, less family
time, more control by authorities, trusts, even other GPs and before too
long,supermarkets also.
So before you start asking about setting up more 'groups', sub-, mega-
hyper- or quasi-...tell me where is the bloody DOSH?!
Now I'm just going to take my haloperidol and go and have a nice lie
down....
Graham Balin, (Essex Man)
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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: PCGs
> Date: 10 March 1998 22:14
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> Anybody from Wakefield on the list?
> I've kinda heard about a novel approach to PCG formation - sub-groups
> of practices concentrating on quality/clinical issues and a 'mega'
> board overseeing then all financially?
>
>
> Dr David J Plews
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