[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 17:47 on 10/10/98
about "Re: NHS Direct has de-stabilised the GP Co-ops in Devon":
-----------------------------
>Only if that Co-op relied on nurses to run. In the medium term GPs
would
>cotton on to putting their call forwarding OOH calls to NHS direct for
them
>to filter and deal with. That *could* be destabilising.
No, the most acute loss is in operators.
The nurses are being attracted away from general practice.
A market is fine, but when the DoH is funding an organisation to
compete with another organisation it funds, and doing so lavishly,
it does not seem entirely sensible.
--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|