I have staff in my Team currently cancelling appointments with patients so that they can do their Information Governance training. Apparently if the Trust doesn't achieve a 95% compliance by the end of the week, they will get a large fine/ reduction in funding.It's all about improved patient care so they tell me.
Quote from: webbo on April 25, 2016, 07:35:20 pmI have staff in my Team currently cancelling appointments with patients so that they can do their Information Governance training. Apparently if the Trust doesn't achieve a 95% compliance by the end of the week, they will get a large fine/ reduction in funding.It's all about improved patient care so they tell me. Same in my dept 40-60% understaffed most days yet we still have to find time to do Information Governance and other bollocks:wall:
Is this not the most fucking desperate act of twatishness you've ever heard of?Junior doctors' leaders 'trying to topple the government'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36126740
That's why I find it so amusing that the latter-day saints of our business (1) attribute to me motives that just weren't there, and (2) accuse me of corrupting morality, which I wish I had the power to do.
Quote from: webbo on April 25, 2016, 07:35:20 pmI have staff in my Team currently cancelling appointments with patients so that they can do their Information Governance training. Apparently if the Trust doesn't achieve a 95% compliance by the end of the week, they will get a large fine/ reduction in funding.It's all about improved patient care so they tell me. Same in my dept 40-60% understaffed most days yet we still have to find time to do Information Governance.
Quote from: webbo on April 25, 2016, 07:35:20 pmI have staff in my Team currently cancelling appointments with patients so that they can do their Information Governance training. Apparently if the Trust doesn't achieve a 95% compliance by the end of the week, they will get a large fine/ reduction in funding.It's all about improved patient care so they tell me.It's about patient care, confidentiality and reputational damage among other things. They are all important issues. Making sure people understand and are regularly reminded of their responsibilities for IG is important. Pre-assessment can reduce the time taken to 10 mins if people already know what they need to. Not a big ask. And it's not bollocks.As a student, I left things to the last minute. As a student. And for a trust to do that on this week, with major strikes planned, is ridiculous. Cancelling appointments with patients to achieve the compliance levels sounds like a clear a case of poor* planning, probably at numerous levels. *I suspect the top level planning resulting in the staffing shortages to be intentionally destructive and thus effective rather than poor planning.
So everyone forgets about it and gets on with seeing patients.
Its not a manifesto promise that the Junior doctors are blocking, they are simply a non issue in 7 day working, the extra cost is lost in the noise in the funding gap to achieve genuine 7 day working and other contracts are far more of an issue. Hunt is a lying liar who has lied again.
what we need is a 5 minute Victoria Wood and Julie Walters sketch explaining the Caldicott principles in an amusing way with hilarious exampleseveryone would enjoy watching it and would remember it for years
* The Tories want a 7-day NHS. That is, they want non-emergency cover to be available on saturday and sunday too.* They are starting with junior doctors. They'll need to do it for the rest (technicians etc.) too, but have started with junior doctors.* They want the new junior doctors contract to be cost neutral. Justification for this is that the overall number of patients seen will not increase - people can take a sunday appt instead of taking time off on a friday, for example.
* The one remaining piece of disagreement between the BMA and the government was saturday pay. The BMA want it to go up; the government don't.
Does this help in any way?
That's it. I'm not interested in privatisation,Can someone please answer the above?
Despite a feeling that I'll be going against the wind here, and apologies if I missed the answer, but I'm really struggling to understand what this is all about. Pete JH keeps trying to wield Occam's razor, and not really getting anywhere, but I guess it's worth a go... humour me, perhaps I'm stupid.I want facts only - and as little politics as possible...* The Tories want a 7-day NHS. That is, they want non-emergency cover to be available on saturday and sunday too.* They are starting with junior doctors. They'll need to do it for the rest (technicians etc.) too, but have started with junior doctors.* They want the new junior doctors contract to be cost neutral. Justification for this is that the overall number of patients seen will not increase - people can take a sunday appt instead of taking time off on a friday, for example.QUESTION 1: IS THIS WRONG? IF IT IS WRONG, WHY? WHY WILL THE OVERALL WORKLOAD INCREASE?
Quote from: Lund on April 28, 2016, 02:16:53 pm* The Tories want a 7-day NHS. That is, they want non-emergency cover to be available on saturday and sunday too.* They are starting with junior doctors. They'll need to do it for the rest (technicians etc.) too, but have started with junior doctors.* They want the new junior doctors contract to be cost neutral. Justification for this is that the overall number of patients seen will not increase - people can take a sunday appt instead of taking time off on a friday, for example.The concept of full 7 day services are certainly laudable. To suggest this can be done in a cost neutral way is ridiculous. It will be hugely expensive to fully extend services. Patients seen will undoubtedly increase. Do you expect that clinics on a Wednesday will suddenly not be fully booked? That there will be empty operating theatres with nothing to do? Services are pushed to breaking as it is, and the population is getting older and more sick. Advances in medicine are hugely increasing the size of the population living with chronic illness. Pressures are increasing all the time. Increase the number of appointments/elective theatre slots and patients will rapidly fill them. Maybe waiting lists will reduce initially, but doctors taking it easy during the week to make up for Saturday clinics? No way. On that point, taking doctors away from the week day shifts to put them on the weekend will pressurise rotas further and already there are gaps in many specialties (particularly acute services such as A+E). Regardless of the debate over pay, I don't think it unreasonable to be unhappy with the idea of working more weekends for no pay increase, but it seems highly likely that pay will go down. This does not seem fair, but really its not what this is about. The sort of sample rotas we are seeing which spread doctors around to cover these extra shifts look like they have been written with someone with no clue what it means to work outside of 9am-5pm. It looks almost intended to induce a state of perpetual jet lag. The government clearly know this is an issue and that rotas will be disruptive to any form of work life balance. Their own equality assessment confirms this. They accept that the new contract will discriminate against women, but do not seem overly concerned by this. Its likely the situation will then worsen as doctors quit the profession and go abroad. This isn't idle speculation, I already know doctors who will be off to work for banks from August and others seriously looking into options in Canada and Australia, who never planned to leave the country.