djstaffs
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Good Morning all ye good citizens of staffordforum.com.
Heard this little snippit from a GP being interviewed on BBC breakfast at 6.40ish. Concerning swine flu vaccines. The nice GP lady person said how there was going to be millions of flu vaccines which would be pressures pn GPs and their practice nurses to administer them.
"...and we would of course expect to be paid for doing this..." notice she said they expect to get paid for it, for providing the service. She wasnt talking about the funding to buy the vaccines and she wasnt talking about having to work extra hours.
WTF doing what?...its your job, why on earth do they expect extra pay for doing nothing more than their job? Which in most cases will just fall to the practice nurses to do anyway. What kind of a broken system do we have that allows such a thing to happen-paying overpaid GPs to delegate vaccinating high risk patients to practice nurses and then paying said GPs for it. No extra work for them but loads extra pay. BUT my real big gripe here is what about all the other people who do actually have extra work loads because of swine flu? When your office has half the number of people in and your working harder and longer is the goverment going to pay you extra for keeping things going.
And then to our hospitals...already overworked, with the extra pressures will the doctors,nurses, healthcare assistants, radiographers etc all get extra pay for working under extra pressure and in many cases working over??....will they 'eck, so why are GPs so special?
OK soap box away for a bit...what does everyone else think?
Heard this little snippit from a GP being interviewed on BBC breakfast at 6.40ish. Concerning swine flu vaccines. The nice GP lady person said how there was going to be millions of flu vaccines which would be pressures pn GPs and their practice nurses to administer them.
"...and we would of course expect to be paid for doing this..." notice she said they expect to get paid for it, for providing the service. She wasnt talking about the funding to buy the vaccines and she wasnt talking about having to work extra hours.
WTF doing what?...its your job, why on earth do they expect extra pay for doing nothing more than their job? Which in most cases will just fall to the practice nurses to do anyway. What kind of a broken system do we have that allows such a thing to happen-paying overpaid GPs to delegate vaccinating high risk patients to practice nurses and then paying said GPs for it. No extra work for them but loads extra pay. BUT my real big gripe here is what about all the other people who do actually have extra work loads because of swine flu? When your office has half the number of people in and your working harder and longer is the goverment going to pay you extra for keeping things going.
And then to our hospitals...already overworked, with the extra pressures will the doctors,nurses, healthcare assistants, radiographers etc all get extra pay for working under extra pressure and in many cases working over??....will they 'eck, so why are GPs so special?
OK soap box away for a bit...what does everyone else think?