It is all too possible that £29 k is the correct figure. This is why I keep falling over laughing whenever anyone suggests major new developments in GP IT. By and large, the HA's haven't got the message yet... Andrew -------------------------------------- Dr. Andrew N. Herd MRCGP GP, Journalist, and Medical Adviser to Durham Health Authority [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------- -------- Original Message -------- Memo #7871 (1863) Received: from naga.mailbase.ac.uk (naga.mailbase.ac.uk [128.240.226.3]) by mail.compulink.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA19739; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:36:15 GMT Received: by naga.mailbase.ac.uk id <[log in to unmask]> (8.7.x for naga.mailbase.ac.uk); Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:13:27 GMT Received: from gollum.globalnet.co.uk by naga.mailbase.ac.uk id <[log in to unmask]> (8.7.x for naga.mailbase.ac.uk) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:13:22 GMT Received: from client858f.globalnet.co.uk (client858f.globalnet.co.uk [194.126.85.143]) by gollum.globalnet.co.uk (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA19363 for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:18:18 GMT Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:18:18 GMT Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> X-Sender: [log in to unmask] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: [log in to unmask] From: Dr David J Plews <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Computer budgets X-List: [log in to unmask] X-Unsub: To leave, send text 'leave gp-uk' to [log in to unmask] Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: [log in to unmask] Precedence: list Question: Are FHSA/HA computer budgets dependant on the number of GPFH's? After badgering our HA every month since April, they now claim the Region has allocated them 29,000ukp for this financial year - for non-fund and for GPFH's (maintenance costs for GPFHs are included in the management allowance) - 119 GPs in 30 plus practices. Does this figure sound right? I thought, perhaps mistakenly that non-fund and clinical GPFH computer reimbursement was via GMS and so funded independantly of GPFH committment. Links is funded "separately" of course. -------------------------- Dr David J Plews email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%