In article <000301bdebd1$cd6ff280$430d93c3@-jeff>, Jeff Green
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>> cost
>You're contracted for 24 hour care anyway.
>
>> generates unreasonable demand
>How unreasonable is it for a patient to wish to be seen when they are ill?
Think about that. It is humanly impossible to be working 24 hrs a day
and seven days a week, except perhaps for mothers of new born children.
The contract is for a given set of hours, often less than are actually
worked, and then emergency cover for the rest, not - I repeat not - for
_standard_ care for 24 hours every day. As to how arrangements are made
for the emergency cover, they are varied and variable but do not impinge
upon the contract.
Because the argument is often an emotional one and one person's
emergency is another's trivia, the distinctions are often blurred in
real life (sometimes wantonly, sometimes in ignorance) but they are real
and necessary for the NHS to continue without raising costs by an order
of magnitude.
Regards
George
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