Doctors & Budgets

[dyslexiauntied]

Can one of you intelligent souls out there kindly explain something to me.

At the moment it is sometimes easier to make an appointment to see Elvis Presley than it is to see your local GP, that is without giving them 2 weeks advance noitice of illness!!

That being the case, will someone kindly tell me how GPs will find the time to sit down and run their own budgets, as well as tending to the sick and fulfilling both their obligations and (supposedely) a vocation?

Will they indeed be running it themselves, or will they just like the PHC Trusts simply employ the exact same managers who already do it, to do it on their behalf?
I am a very simple person, so please only simple answers,(if of course there are any)

[evedawn]

Ditto to you! I agree. I work for a GP and I can already see that the docs are gonna be paid extra whilst us minions, (who won't get paid a jot) will pick up the slack, there won't be extra appointments, (just the opposite) but extra admin for staff.....very sore point at the moment!

[AlBags]

Well they'll have to have their own budgeting PA's.
Better them than some of those fatpants NHS bosses that run Bentleys.

[dyslexiauntied]

A debate on this very subject is to take place shortly during the Jeremy Vine show starting at noon, perhaps we might be enlightened, but then again!! All ears pricked!!