LOL
Another huge issue we're facing in primary care at the moment is all the extra work that's involved due to secondary care (hospitals/specialists) NOT seeing pateints in a decent timeframe.
It used to be I'd see a patient for a condition, deal with it as best as we could, a few weeks later it gets worse so I refer to secondary care..secondary care see them, plan operation/special drug etc, and they're better..
Now it's:
I'd see a patient for a condition, deal with it as best as we could, a few weeks later it gets worse so I refer to secondary care... no response from secondary care..I see them again, trying my best..... pateint told it's a 34 week wait to see secondary care... I see them again - not much more i can do..... still no input from secondary care...I see them again - they're asking me to write to the hospital..... finally hospital speak to them on the phone, and ask ME to perform XYZ tests before an operation..I decline this as the hospital are commisioned to perform Pre-op, not me...
So you see it's still the same problem, but the work it's created for me in primary care is not four-fold what it should be because secondary care is failing too....
DrP
Should they get access to the NHS pension aswell?
And what would excluding them actually achieve ie more or less people signing up to be GPs?
