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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mary Hawking
> Sent: 25 September 1998 12:37
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> Yes, and a lot of it is *time*
> We're 1000 GPs short (that's official!)
> Estimates of the time needed to be involved in a PCG seem to vary, but I
> have heard about 3 days a month for Board members (this would take 21 GP
> days out of the system in every PCG.. *every month*)
> Y2000 problems can be quite timeconsuming in themselves..
> And just in case you'd forgotten, even more work is being transferred
> from secondary to primary care.. whether funded or not, it still takes
> time...
> Does *anyone* have time left to see the patients?
> Mary
>
> Mary Hawking Kingsbury Court Surgery Church Street Dunstable LU5 4RS
> tel:01582 663218 (surgery)fax:01582 476488 (surgery)
> Member of British Healthcare Internet Association
> Dunstable and Houghton Regis Locality Commisssioning Pilot
>
If each board member needs three days per month out and there are 5 GP board members per PCG on average, then we will need 3 GP
weeks per PCG. If there are 400 PCG's, then we will need 1200 GP weeks per year. Dividing this by the number of weeks worked per
year ie 45, (6 weeks holiday and one weeks study leave) then need about 250 extra GP's from 1/4/99 just to make the system work.
Cost to the exchequer 250 x 70k = 17.5M, where's that coming from never mind the actual people.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk
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