You're all absolutely right. This new system is shite. However.....
1. We said the same about Fundholding and where did it get us......50% of
us were fundholders in 3 years...etc etc.. We are NOT united, and never
will be...so lets not delude ourselves.
2. The government has a majority of almost 200, and is still the most
popular government in history! Its PR machine will ALWAYS be bigger and
better than ours...and it will ALWAYS win.
3. They never did want to give GPs control of PCGs. They have demonstrated
that by clawing back most of Milburn's promises. The one thing they haven't
clawed back is our hard-won majority.
4. The nurses are a far more obedient option...and they think they are
cheaper too.........and........
5. They have already drafted regulations and taken powers to draft in
nurses to fill GP seats on PCG boards if GPs follow a path of
non-cooperation
6. The nurses will willingly take those seats....and then THEY will be in
control of our GMS, our reimbursements and our incomes.
7. We have fought for the right to be in the majority and in control. Even
if the system is shite, it is better to influence from pissing within, than
from pissing outside.
8. If we dont participate and run this thang, we will end up with half of
us going in voluntarily, the rest of us being dragged in in any case, and a
few brave chaps going private in a market which only the few wish to join -
why pay for a rolls royce when you get a Merc for free?
Stewart Drage
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> From: Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> To: INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: What happens if we don't co-operate
> Date: 18 October 1998 00:24
>
> <<Ahmad,
>
> << What happens if they go ahead without the doctors? I mean *really*
> without the doctors. >>
>
> They will function just as the old Health Authorities do now. No more
> no less. We will have the same amount of clout no more no less.
>
> Iain>>
>
> I think Ahmad means if they try to provide medical services without
> doctors. What then?
> Declan
> ......morgens das Sonnensystem.
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