[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>If I were locuming now I could work at least at 100pc if I so chose -
>ok, so I have the work ethic - but is this as reason to increase pay for
>those who don't?
It is short sighted of any professional group, doctor of one sort
versus another, or indeed midwife vs GP to suggest a downward pressure
on prices; values or worth.
The BMA suggestions for the locum fees (which derive to a considerable
extent still from the version I was involved in negotiating - which
corrected some of the defects of the previous one) are effectively a
controlled market of the same sort which GPs operate in - net intended
remuneration etc.
The net intended is supposed to be achieved by a nominal mixture of
parts of work and fees for those parts which included a large element
of nights (gone now) and weekends (also gone).
THe basis has changed, therefore the fees need drastically changing in
order to achieve the declared aim.
Nobody on this list will wish to suggest that having achieved
improvements in the working conditions of one group of GPs - Principals
in post - related to out of hours, that those principals would wish to
deny an improvement in conditions to other members of the profession
and craft. Oh no, no lifeboat-jackism here.
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