We had the Chief Executive come to a Hospital Consultants Meeting and
say that he had received a complaint about private work. A patient (I
think a solicitor) had received a letter about a private consultation
with a hospital franking on the front. This was use of NHS resources
for private work and was unacceptable.
If people are prepared to get upset over 30p worth of postage I think
there would be more upset over consultants doing private work when they
are being paid to do NHS work.
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Fogarty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 October 2006 00:48
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: grasping the nettle!medicolegal work in Emergency medicine
I agree with Craig. Surely the rules are quite clear, particularly with
the
new consultant contract. Such work must be done in your own time; it's
not
part of SPA time. Doing such work on site is not a particular problem as
long as such work doesn't materially interfere with your colleagues or
the
department. But your 2.5 SPA sessions (or whatever your contract) must
be
used for NHS purposes only, that's quite clear.
AF (declaration: have a large medicolegal practice which is undertaken
in my
own time)
----- Original Message -----
From: "mark nicol" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:30 PM
Subject: grasping the nettle!medicolegal work in Emergency medicine
>I would value assistance in benchmarking how other people organise
>medicolegal work to obviate or at least minimise tensions between
>colleagues- some who do do it and some who do not?I am about to go to
>advert for two more consultants and I want to avoid applicants from
>undertaking medicolegal work without some robust line in the sand of
>acceptability.
> 1.which of the following do you agree with:
> medicolegal work (that aspect pertaining to income generating work
from
> solicitors to see patients and do reports) should be done
> a) off site and in own doctors time
> b) on site but after hours
> c) on site but in SPA time and limited to 2 patients only per week
> d) on site, in SPA, no finite limit to number of patients at all
>
> Thank you for your help on this topic.Am I right in thinking this is
one
> of the top three sources of tension between consultants in Emergency
> medicine?
> mark at macc
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