NHS GP Surgery - Private Work

[zxspectrum]

As would shutting down all their NHS work and going fully private, but I don't imagine you'd be blaming them in quite the same way for that.

I suppose that whether the partial split is fair, for some definition of fair probably revolving around the taxpayer, depends on whether NHS funding for their business is directly proportional to their NHS workload.

why can't we just have GP's working for the community, paid for by the community?

 

[Artaxerxes]

why can't we just have GP's working for the community, paid for by the community?

Because apparently thats unfair on businesses, those poor struggling waifs trying to compete, diddums.

 

[zxspectrum]

Silly moi, what were I thinking?

 

[maomao]

I'd love to be a GP. I could quite happily spend all day typing stuff into Google Symptoms, telling people they can't have a referral to a specialist and generally being rude to sick and vulnerable people for a very large amount of money.

Tbf only 50% of them are like that. Being a newcomer to my surgery and only ever having emergency appointments I've had 4 different doctors and a nurse practitioner in the last year and a half and only one really fitted that description. I've now discovered the cynical bored twat who will write a generous prescription with minimum fuss though so will be requesting him in future.

 

[Plumdaff]

GPs are private businesses, full stop. They just have NHS contracts. It was one of the huge mistakes of he 1945 government and has caused problems ever since. There are many excellent GPs out there but there are also many money obsessed wankers who only want to develop their practice if they get more money and treat their staff like shit (GP practice nurses for example are never on NHS terms and conditions). If I had a GP like that I'd change surgery. Vote with your feet.