>From: David Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: GP pay
>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:34:37 -0400
>The British GP is completely uninterested in pay rises and therefor is
>either
> a. not prepared to act
> b. unable to act
> when continually short-changed by government. Discuss - by e-mail. :->
One factor is that the organisation of General Practice with many
small, isolated, and uncommunicating competing groups is not conducive
to concerted action or indeed to obtaining good working conditions from
the increasingly cynical and manipulative apparatchiks who were
encouraged to infest the management structure in the last government
and have not yet been routed out, lined up against a South facing wall,
and shot with the sun in their eyes.
I see two alternatives which may improve elements of this:-
1. The Firm, GPs in an area join together into a superpractice, run it
as one org, and in short order stuff the forms needed to apportion the
laughably small payments we struggle over into the oubliette of
history, top-slicing whatever size income the managing partners'
committee decides is appropriate for GPs off the top of the PCG budget,
and giving the employed manager instructions to find a way of making
that work.
2. The revolution. I have a suitable wall.
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