Surely, co-chairs can only work if they communicate effectively. They
will also
have to be respected by their peers. Our PCG can't see why the duties of
"the
responsible officer" cannot be shared. After all it is not like football
(like
the ex-joint managerial team of Evans and Houllier) where decisions have
to be
made within minutes and tactics changed constantly depending on the
circumstances.
Our PCG hold the view that there should be more corporate responsibility
in
decision making anyway and not have an authoritarian style of
leadership. The
GPs all felt that it was important that the GP holds the chair as he/she
will
set the vision, priorities and agenda for meetings. At the same time,
the
suggested workload of a single chair was too much for any one GP to
undertake.
Don't forget the remuneration and allowance that is on offer do not
adequately
compensate for the practice that is going to give up a very valuable
full time
partner working for 2-2.5 days away from the surgery. As a result, that
surgery
will suffer quite a bit.
In our PCG, the co-chairs feel comfortable enough to share the workload.
They
will decide between themselves as what exact duties they undertake. e.g.
alternate chairing of meetings etc. Surely, it is more vital that the
whole PCG
work together as one. We intend to give this system a go and will review
it in a
year's time to ascertain if it was successful. The HA should not have a
say in
this as long as the PCG works.
Also, why should we have a chair and vice chair when they are
effectively co-chairs......just to fit into someone's idea of management
structure?
Dr K M Chung
Dr Paul Caldwell wrote:
> We propsed this for my PCG, but was dissallowed by the HA. Although there is
> nothing specific in HSC's stopping it, nonetheless there has to be a
> responsible officer-the chair- and it is very difficult to see how this can
> be split. Plus it makes external communication very difficult and board
> meetings impossible.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K M Chung <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Mailbase <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 09:52 PM
> Subject: PCG co-chairs
>
> >Now that we are on the topic of PCG chairs. I wonder if many PCGs have
> >co-chairs as we have in Bootle and Litherland. This came about because
> >none of the GPs could take on the sole role as PCG chair (nobody could
> >give up 2-2.5 days a week) and we felt that chair should be a GP. We
> >intend to divide the allowance between the 2 GPs. The HA are rather
> >stunned by this decision. Is there anything on the guidance that says we
> >can't do this? Can the DOH object to this?
> >
> >Dr K M Chung
> >GP
> >PCG board member
> >Bootle and Litherland PCG
> >
> >
> >
> >
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