Thanks Bill, you old lighthouse keeper!
Peter
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From: Roger Leary <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 October 1998 19:16
Subject: Re: Community care costs
>Unfortunately though they have a lovely printer et al our senior
>district nurse still provides her own mobile phone. They freely admit
>that they foresee little real benefit for patients emerging from this
>latest piece of technology and the previous piece of technology they
>were given for similar purposes lies discarded on the floor having
>apparently over a 2 year period never been used! Meanwhile our
>submission for additional clerical help for them has been ignored. No
>NHS managers, unlike you and I do not spend their own money. Therefore
>the 'sub-budget' must be spent even if another 'sub-budget 'is clearly
>inadequate. Perhaps PCGs will alter this state of affairs but somehow I
>doubt it. The AHA has a similar fascination with IT believing it will
>somehow allow them to avoid the overwhelming evidence of underfunding in
>coal face personnel.
>Roger Leary. GP, Esher, Surrey.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 09 October 1998 22:05
>Subject: Re: Community care costs
>
>
>>On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:49:51 +0100, "Roger Leary"
>><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>I find our district nurses have just been supplied with a 1100ukp
>laser,
>>>15 sheet per minute, printer in their office plus new Pentium PC all
>>>linked by ISDN
>>
>>Lucky you!
>>
>>When we want to get hold of our district nursing sister in a hurry we
>>have always had to ring their central office and leave a message for
>>when she next rings in, which is pretty useless in an emergency. We
>>pleaded for her to have a mobile phone which was refused as too
>>expensive. Eventually, very grudgingly, they agreed to a pager, which
>>is better than nothing (of course the senior managers in the trust
>>have mobile phones).
>>
>>David
>>
>>
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>>
>>Dr David Evans
>>Cardiff
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