>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
I had similar discussions with Somerset HA 2 weeks ago. They are adamant
that they will not pay for GPs to attend evening meetings for PCGs. So far
attendance of c50 GPs has gone from 30 to 20 to 15 over the last three
meetings. I pointed out to the HA that if GPs are not involved, with a
sense of ownership, the PCG will founder. We have been given £2000 to keep
us going until October. We are going to invoice the HA for all those GPs
who attend PCG meetings and demand payment.
(Acting Chair of Sedgemoor PCG)
Dr GM Trowell
Highbridge Medical Centre
Highbridge
Somerset TA9 3YA
01278 783220
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-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Balin <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 11 March 1998 16:08
Subject: Re: PCGs and Workload too
>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)
>----------
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: PCGs
>> Date: 10 March 1998 22:14
>>
>> 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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