On 04/05/98 06:04:16, Katabront <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Good for you Jon. Thank goodness someone else is prepared to get their face
>out of the gutter and look at the stars. Of course we can make it work if we
>put our minds to it. After all we did opretty well with KC's mess in 1990
>didn't we. Certainly a lot better than he thought we could. We just need to
>remember the lesson form 1990 and not make the same mistakes again this time.
Have I been practising in a different planet for the past few years
without knowing it?
When you say we did pretty well with KC's mess in 1990, what exactly
was that that we did?
The only lessons I can remember (and must not repeat ever again) are
those that led to the overturning of a 80:20 majority in favour of
splitting the contract and being sold down the river for 45m!
What other lessons we mustn't forget?
Oh, having the review body recommendations ignored year on year, or
the pay award being staged year on year. Seeing my real income go down
year on year is something I won't forget quickly.
We did pretty well since 1990. We have HP bands, HP clinics, business
plans, annual reports, over 75 checks (remember those? Oh yes, they
are still around!), we have unpaid locality committee work, we have
unpaid TR telephone work, we have unpaid work dumped from the
hospitals, we have increasing levels of complaints and litigation, we
have erosion of the real value of premises, we have fundholders being
bailed out by everybody else through the pool system, we have the pool
system and clawbacks. It goes on and on, doesn't it?
Yeah, you're right. We did do pretty well indeed!
Ahmad
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