How many patients did I see during this marathon work session?
About 10.
And I rushed most of them out as fast as I could to get on with my real work:
THE NEW GMS CONTRACT QUALITY POINTS BONANZA.
Ironically, a recent analysis of the QoF that we did suggests that once you factor in all the staff, nursing, and medical time involved in this New Labour farce, it turns out that we probably make a small loss on the whole thing.
Of course, if we simply dump it as the collossal waste of time and money that it really is, the Primary Care Gestapo will be round like a fucking shot to tell us how crap we are because we didn't score top points.
Meanwhile, the patient is an afterthought to our long days. A pesky nuisance that interferes with the smooth running of our perfect-on-paper practice.
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3 comments:
I've got a committee to run, and a conference to attend, and an appraisal or several to do.
Should I join the twaterati? Perhaps I already have.
Actually mucking about with computers and committees is as well paid as seeing patients and much, much easier. You can see why some doctors escape into such work. It's the ultimate way of exception reporting ourselves from all our patients.
But we can talk such a good line in patient centredness, and quality control.
That could be a problem isnt it? I guess so, cose if youre a doctor and you dont have time...that what happen in Spain with the public services...regards
GP sends away patients to work 17 hours straight to boost his income! Call the Daily Mail!
Seriously though, people who insist GPs should be open longer hours need to be forced to compare the hours they work to the hours their doctors work before opening their mouths.
I love my job, but not leaving the office for nearly 36 hours? Jesus wept.
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