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> *From:* Adrian Fogarty <[log in to unmask]> > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Date:* Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:07:22 +0100 > > Fascinating stuff about the courses Rowley. Makes you wonder, doesn't > it, where it will all end. But there is a point to all this. Course > money is all Deanery money, so it is indeed public funds. You have to > be very careful what you do with it. Except for the not insubstantial numbers who pay out of their own pockets, of course. > > As far as my evening/weekend phone calls are concerned, I take > personnel management very "personally", shall we say. I wouldn't > trust one of my managers to be able to "negotiate" shift swaps etc > with one of my juniors. I firmly believe consultants should manage > such issues. You could say I'm a control freak, but my managers have > entrusted me with a huge medical staffing budget, and I've managed to > shave nearly half a million of it in the past year by attention to > detail more than anything else. They're not worried about the > occasional stamp I use...for the moment. But managers have short > memories, don't they? Each to his own; it's a matter of delegation in my eyes. I too have taken a fair bit off the budget by similar pedantry. I'm more bothered about the quality and speed of locums, and after finding that they are significantly slower than our own team have made it a condition of use of an agency or locum that their mean delay before seeing patients is 1 hour or less. > But returning to the calls, I could go through the operator but it's > too time consuming. Again, my fondness for mobile telephony wins over. > > AF Your choice - down to the aggro factor once more. /Rowley./