At our second 'thinking about setting up a PCG' meeting, the subject
of employing staff came up. The Health Authority stated that we would
only be able to select future staff from newly redundant fundholding
and Health Authority staff. This is not of course in order to
minimise redundancy payments ;-))
Some of us argued that this is unfair to the PCG as:
1. We'd never made anybody redundant and therefore had no responsibility
to re-employ them.
2. It precluded us from perhaps employing an outsider whose previous
experience might be more appropriate to the job that needed doing.
3. Some of us might feel more comfortable with a manager from outside
(who may still have had a prior life in a Health Authority or
fundholding practice) but who does not have a history of allegiance
to our HA or a local fundholding practice.
4. It sounds against what I always believed to be the situation
regarding employment - advertise, take the best etc.
Does anybody have any knowledge of this?
PS on the subject of payment for meetings, the HA may consider paying
20ukp per hour ("agreement reached with the LMC") from "the balance
of the GPEC budget"
Mike
Mike North
GP Maylandsea Essex
Editor EQUIP (Formerly Essex MAAG) Magazine
http://www.equip.ac.uk
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