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Post by jonksy on Feb 14, 2023 1:27:14 GMT
JUST one question, the issue was never this bad before the pandemic.. Where have all the GPS gone??..........Twelve GP'S at my surgery all part time!
'It's like a stretched elastic band ready to snap': Shock figures reveal 'it is almost impossible to see your GP when you need to' as 2,273 patients now scramble for appointments with EACH family doctor in England In Blackburn with Darwen, there are 2,915 patients per each fully qualified GP Last year there were 9 per cent more patient consultations by GPs than in 2019
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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 14, 2023 2:20:12 GMT
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/pressures-in-general-practice-data-analysisWorth a read. The number of GPs has barely risen for years on end, and nany are planning in leaving the NHS altogether, say the BMA Whether that means going into private practice or hsnging upntbeir stethoscopes i do not know In my neck of the woods all the GPs i helped train in their preclin years have retired. Qualifying as doctors in the early 80s they all reached the topmost area of their salary progression ages ago and took early retirement long ago because to carry on meant utterly swingeing tax penalties on pension pots. Well thats what they told me at the time. I cant say i blame them. As an IT colleague who died of an untreated cancer during the pandemic told me about a decade and a half earlier, his employer was looking to downsize the workforce and made him a combined redundancy and ongoing pension offer to take his body and not come back. And he had 15 bloody good years before the end came. A mate of mine who is currently only working four days a week had a positive prostate cancer diagnosis last week. I doubt he will live to enjoy the full measure of his employers pension scheme …
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Post by jonksy on Feb 14, 2023 4:36:29 GMT
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/pressures-in-general-practice-data-analysisWorth a read. The number of GPs has barely risen for years on end, and nany are planning in leaving the NHS altogether, say the BMA Whether that means going into private practice or hsnging upntbeir stethoscopes i do not know In my neck of the woods all the GPs i helped train in their preclin years have retired. Qualifying as doctors in the early 80s they all reached the topmost area of their salary progression ages ago and took early retirement long ago because to carry on meant utterly swingeing tax penalties on pension pots. Well thats what they told me at the time. I cant say i blame them. As an IT colleague who died of an untreated cancer during the pandemic told me about a decade and a half earlier, his employer was looking to downsize the workforce and made him a combined redundancy and ongoing pension offer to take his body and not come back. And he had 15 bloody good years before the end came. A mate of mine who is currently only working four days a week had a positive prostate cancer diagnosis last week. I doubt he will live to enjoy the full measure of his employers pension scheme … I agree JoG this has been creeping up for years and the NHS so called managers have done jack shit about the problem. They would rather concentrate on all this diversity bollocks rather than the real problems our health service is facing. |
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Post by jonksy on Feb 17, 2023 19:09:00 GMT
Either you're male or female. You might WANT to be something else, but that's between you and your head. There's no reason why anyone should be forced to comply with this made up fantasy in someone's mind..........They can't ask me because if they can't work out my sex, they are not fit to practise medicine. Treat all patients as gender neutral, NHS doctors told: Health Secretary’s anger at taxpayer-funded guide that tells medics not to use pronouns until patient has confirmed them Insiders say Steve Barclay 'hit the roof' when guide was unearthed by the Mail Steve Barclay last night ordered an urgent investigation into new guidelines that tell NHS staff to treat all patients as gender-neutral. The Health Secretary demanded answers after learning taxpayers had funded the guide to ‘inclusive communication’. It instructs doctors and nurses not to use phrases such as ‘Mr’ and ‘Mrs’ or ‘he’ and ‘she’ until a patient has confirmed their gender identity. www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11763743/Barclay-orders-urgent-investigation-woke-NHS-guidelines-telling-staff-not-use-she.html |
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Post by Handyman on Feb 18, 2023 10:03:50 GMT
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/pressures-in-general-practice-data-analysisWorth a read. The number of GPs has barely risen for years on end, and nany are planning in leaving the NHS altogether, say the BMA Whether that means going into private practice or hsnging upntbeir stethoscopes i do not know In my neck of the woods all the GPs i helped train in their preclin years have retired. Qualifying as doctors in the early 80s they all reached the topmost area of their salary progression ages ago and took early retirement long ago because to carry on meant utterly swingeing tax penalties on pension pots. Well thats what they told me at the time. I cant say i blame them. As an IT colleague who died of an untreated cancer during the pandemic told me about a decade and a half earlier, his employer was looking to downsize the workforce and made him a combined redundancy and ongoing pension offer to take his body and not come back. And he had 15 bloody good years before the end came. A mate of mine who is currently only working four days a week had a positive prostate cancer diagnosis last week. I doubt he will live to enjoy the full measure of his employers pension scheme … I agree JoG this has been creeping up for years and the NHS so called managers have done jack shit about the problem. They would rather concentrate on all this diversity bollocks rather than the real problems our health service is facing. Why are you blaming the NHS for the lack of GP's, we have not had enough GP's for a long time that is not the fault of the NHS it is because not enough new junior Doctors wish to become GP's which is hardly surprising given the fact most GP's have a least 2,000 patients on their books, they can only see so many patients per day GP's officially are not part of the NHS they are private contractors, they can pick and choose if they wish to only see private patients, or see NHS Patients as well if they only see Private patients the patients pay a fee, if they see NHS Patients they get a fee from the NHS ( taxpayers) some GP's do both |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2023 14:56:01 GMT
I agree JoG this has been creeping up for years and the NHS so called managers have done jack shit about the problem. They would rather concentrate on all this diversity bollocks rather than the real problems our health service is facing. Why are you blaming the NHS for the lack of GP's, we have not had enough GP's for a long time that is not the fault of the NHS it is because not enough new junior Doctors wish to become GP's which is hardly surprising given the fact most GP's have a least 2,000 patients on their books, they can only see so many patients per day GP's officially are not part of the NHS they are private contractors, they can pick and choose if they wish to only see private patients, or see NHS Patients as well if they only see Private patients the patients pay a fee, if they see NHS Patients they get a fee from the NHS ( taxpayers) some GP's do both We may have made the mistake of paying GPs too well, as the average GP works 3 days a week, which is obviously enough for them financially, but restricts patient appointments by a massive 40%. How do we get them back to working full time? |
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Post by Handyman on Feb 18, 2023 15:12:42 GMT
No idea, as they are Private Contractors they are their own Boss, even if they work every day of the week 12 hours a day , IMO they would still struggle to see and examine all the Patients who want an appointment every day, they have so many they only allot each patient 10 mins,
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Post by jonksy on Feb 18, 2023 18:52:14 GMT
No idea, as they are Private Contractors they are their own Boss, even if they work every day of the week 12 hours a day , IMO they would still struggle to see and examine all the Patients who want an appointment every day, they have so many they only allot each patient 10 mins, Of course you are correct Handy but the main employer for GP's is either the NHS along with the private health organisations many GP's are unde contract with both both.. The so called managers of the NHS should have been aware of this problem and should have started to try and rectify the situation years ago by forward planning but as per usual they have done jack shit. |
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Post by Handyman on Feb 18, 2023 19:01:31 GMT
No idea, as they are Private Contractors they are their own Boss, even if they work every day of the week 12 hours a day , IMO they would still struggle to see and examine all the Patients who want an appointment every day, they have so many they only allot each patient 10 mins, Of course you are correct Handy but the main employer for GP's is either the NHS along with the private health organisations many GP's are unde contract with both both.. The so called managers of the NHS should have been aware of this problem and should have started to try and rectify the situation years ago by forward planning but as per usual they have done jack shit. As I have always said it is badly run and has been for a long time , on top of that it cannot keep up with the demand on it 24/7 |
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Post by jonksy on Feb 18, 2023 19:08:58 GMT
Of course you are correct Handy but the main employer for GP's is either the NHS along with the private health organisations many GP's are unde contract with both both.. The so called managers of the NHS should have been aware of this problem and should have started to try and rectify the situation years ago by forward planning but as per usual they have done jack shit. As I have always said it is badly run and has been for a long time , on top of that it cannot keep up with the demand on it 24/7 The way it is going now Handy more people will die because of the lack of treatment than died with covid. |
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