In message <[log in to unmask]> you wrote: > At 17:13 05/09/1996 +0100, you wrote: > >I detest fundholding ... > So do I, and I am the "Fund Partner". > The problem is that GPFH/internal market has been incorrectly applied. > The money *does not* follow the patient. It precedes him/her. > > > (while walking the dog, which is when all STONKING ideas occur to me) > Ditto. I have a mad Border Colley. What's yours? A Siberian Husky called Stevie Ray, in memory of Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died tragically in 1990, in a helicopter crash as it happens, travelling somewhere after supporting Eric Clapton. Anywya, we went in a helicopter at the weekend, on a day-trip to Blackpool (better than it sounds). > >Anyway, my idea is to make every citizen a fundholder. > >Allocate so much a year to each person > Sorry John Spiers, formerly Chairman of Brighton NHS Trust and now Chairman > of the Patient's Association thought of this first. He calls it Patient > Fundholding. Oh buggery. > I think it's a great idea. 600-700UKp per patient. They would have to stop > coming to see us to save up for their CABG, etc:-) Hmmm, I like that part. > >I'll be walking the dog again this evening. I wonder what > >spiffing wheeze will occur to me then. > > > The last good idea (no *great*) I had is yet to happen. If we get the local > DGH to subcontract work to us I'll let you all know how we did it. baited breath etc (not dog breath) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%