On 04/05/98 06:04:21, Katabront <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>This isn't quite accurate Ahmed.
>
>Actually the regs say "activities ordinarily carried out by GPs" (or word to
>that effect).
>
>Thus it is only when enough of us start to do it that it becomes part of our
>contract.
Exactly! Bingo ;-)
>It is true, however, that the DoH can insert specific duties into the contract
>unilaterally. They only have to "consult with the professions
>representatives" (ha ha) this doesn't mean they have to listen to what thye
>(?we) say, they just have to tell us about it beofre they tell us to do it.
Then it *is* circular, dear Watson :-)
>Anyway its a "so what" thing since it has always been so and always will be.
I can only put this in response: !!!!!
>At least they don't sling you in clink (or the Gulag) for pointing it out
>here.
Oh, I should be ever so grateful then :-)
>Of course any governernent cabn do what it likes anyway and if it can't (under
>existing law) it will just change the law so that it can. We can, of course,
>change them every 5 years but whoever heard of a government that changed
>anything it objected to when in opposition.
No. We, the Profession, can stop them. We did it before (1963). We
can do it again. And again. And again.
>Cheer up Ahmed - It could be worse.
I am very cheered up but I won't tell you why ;->>
And, it will get worse.
Ahmad
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