If this is true then we know all we need to know about Dobbo and his party.
Anyone who does not regard this as completely outrageous must have been
brought up in a dictatorship.
If this set of values wrt civil liberties is applied more widely then the
country will come to bitterly regret the way it voted last May.
Mark Pasola
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mary Hawking
> Sent: 18 October 1998 11:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Headline in Independent-"Drop-out Drs cost NHS £70 milli on"
>
>
> Did any of you see this?
> Apparently 8% of new graduates leave before completing their first year
> (presumably before registration) and another 1% leave for another career
> "after their probationary period" - presumably immediately after
> registration. (this amounts to almost 10%..)
> The cost of training a doctor is put at 200000 UKP - and Dobbson thinks
> the solution is to oblige newly qualified doctors to serve in the NHS
> for a specified number of years after qualification.. or pay back the
> costs of their training.
> The comparison quoted was the old scheme whereby you enrolled in the
> Army, and had to serve a number of years after qualification.
> I remeber these schemes when I was a student - various industries used
> to have them as well in engineering and suchlike. They were very good -
> the students got paid as officers, expenses catered for, holiday jobs
> arranged, and good post-graduate positions and training guaranteed...
> *so* like the position of present day students! ;-<<
>
> We're in the middle of a recruitment and retention crisis - and all
> these idiots can think of is imposing penaties on the young people whose
> initial enthusiasm has been destroyed by the bleak prospect of a
> lifetime working in the NHS!
>
> Shouldn't they be thinking of applying the same logic to other public
> sector employees where there is a recruitment and retention problem?
> Nurses? Teachers?
>
> I've always thought that classical management theory suggests that a
> high absentee, sickness or drop-out rate suggests there is something
> badly wrong with the place of employement - and *no* amount of coercion
> of the workforce is going to correct the problem!
>
> Mary
>
>
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