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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 7:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | They're coming for the NHS Consultants |
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... e-earnings I suspect that the Govt feel they've won against junior docs. Now senior docs are being softened up. Vilify them, smear them, make them the bad guys and then bring out a new contract that promises all sorts of things. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: They're coming for the NHS Consultants |
If it's genuinely dodgy then fair enough, but isn't the timing remarkable for an issue that wasn't an issue until now... |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 10:09 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: They're coming for the NHS Consultants | |||||||||
It wasn't an issue until now because they needed the consultants onside to cover for the junior doctors when they were on strike. If they think they've won that battle, they don't need to be nice to the consultants any more. They really are a bunch of deplorable [lifted]. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: They're coming for the NHS Consultants |
There are a multitude of issues here: - consultants are contracted to work something like 40-45 hours/week on average (some weeks they work more and some less). Any work done for the NHS beyond this time is essentially goodwill. Anything done out of this time doesn't apply. - there are waiting lists for surgery and for clinics because of lack of resources. If you blocked a consultant from doing private work, they wouldn't just do more NHS work. They'd probably sit at home and watch TV or do something else. There are often not enough beds, theatres or staff to be able to do more work as well as the limit on what the NHS will employ consultants to do. - there are some things the NHS won't fund and patients go privately. Indeed, patients are being encouraged to go privately clicky - consultants have a job plan where every day of their working life is accounted for and has to be approved first - hospitals are allowed to have up to 50% (technically it's something like 49.9%) of their income from private services [consultant does procedure on patient on NHS premises and using NHS resources; both consultant and NHS get some of the money] One could question whether it's a ploy to push some consultants out of the NHS, thereby creating a shortfall and hence disaster. |
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