I would add my personal support to those advocating sick leave - as a
group we are probably harder on ourselves when it comes to this than we
ever are to our patients. But, even this does not automatically trigger
payments towards locum costs from the Health Authority, as they invoke
the various rules about practice size and average lists per remaining
partner.
What a shameful state of affairs. If we were to measure the quality of
care by the way we support those working for the NHS.... :-(
Bill Beeby
GP - Middlesbrough UK
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> A GP from a local practice is in the predicament of needing
> compassionate
> leave to attend to his wife who is having another phase of chemo for
> metastatic Ca. She's relapsed after a short remission
> following treatment in
> March. He has requested full funding for locum payments from
> the HA and has
> been refused. The Red book makes no provision as far as I
> know for such
> situations. Ideas?
> Jenny
> Dr Jennifer Kay
> GP London
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