Most
people South of the Gap will never have heard of a small coastal resort called
Bridlington but it is very popular for many patients in Northenshire when they
take their holidays in trailer parks. This article in Pulse magazine is
interesting as it shows once again how thick the Thickerazzi are at NHS England.
So a whole town’s GPs close their lists to new
patients for 18 months because they cannot cope with demand (for crap and trivia) and NHS England now
says they have to re-open their lists by 1 May with NHS England having
previously decided that GPs could close their lists.
DoH?
Closing
a practice list is not without financial penalty or a huge bureaucratic process
to achieve it for GPs who choose to do so and so is highly unlikely to have
been done on a whim by any one practice let alone a whole town’s practices for
a population of c. 35,000 a large proportion of which is elderly.
Unless of course via the so called domino effect
applies whereby if one practice list becomes closed then new patients are
diverted by NHS managers to nearby practices who then may not be able to cope and so close
their lists and repeat until the last man is down.
Now
the elderly anywhere are the ungratefully demanding but not yet dead abusers of the NHS
freebie that is general practice so large numbers of them create large demands on GPs. List closure is a measure of desperation and not
GP work avoidance.
It
is another Blair legacy of Za Nu Labour's “choice” where if a corner shop decides
to stop serving customers it can by putting a closed sign in their window but
in healthcare you are open all hours whatever under the nGMS contract and regardless
of any individual practice’s own circumstances.
Patient safety is always a concern other than to
NHS comrade commissar managers.
So
NHS comrade commissar managers at Bridlington let us try to put it very very simply. If an aircraft can
only take off and safely land with 10 patients (sorry comrades clients, punters, customers) on board would you
insist NHS comrade commissar manager that the pilot take off with 20 on board?
Of
course you would. Unless you self-centred retarded piece of something brown,
smelly and very thick were one of the passengers. Would you then then insist that
the plane take off with 20 passengers on board including you?
Of
course not NHS comrade commissar manager you would get off the plane to lighten
the load and insist that another 5 passengers get on board the plane to ensure
that you have done your job of providing healthcare. Having then taken the supreme
sacrifice of leaving the aircraft to save comrade patients you will have to
take an alternative flight on your NHS expenses to get to your next urgent meeting
but sod patient care.
Unfortunately
NHS comrade commissar managers GPs do not have the same luxury as airline pilots
called safety and as you do of refusing to take off (treat patients) when things are unsafe for you have now decided
that GPs in Bridlington can now do so in true NHS Aeroflot style.
Instead
of doing your job of providing (sorry NHS
comrade commissar managers we should have used NHS Party Speak “commissioning”)
safe and adequate healthcare for the population you are responsible for, you
have just told those that you commission to do the complete opposite.
No
doubt because your bosses have told you to do so or more likely you have
actually had the misfortune to speak to a few disgruntled NHS punters who are
not impressed with your institutionalized failings to provide (sorry NHS comrade commissar managers
commission) adequate local healthcare (failing
being something you have done exceptionally well since you were in primary
school).
So
you have failed as you have always done for if you had done your jobs properly this
situation would never have arisen as Bridlington would be awash with GPs, wouldn’t
it NHS comrade commissar managers in true NHS Soviet 5 year plan fashion?
Still
like most of the UK’s population when you have failed you can always go and see
and blame your GP with stress, terminal inadequacy, being crap at your job, panic
attacks et al for a sick note . . .
Which
is what you have just done? Just dump (it
on local GPs) and run but when the local GPs run out who are you going to call? NHSEngland?
Praise
be to the Party for NHS managers those in the bottom third of the UK’s
socialized education system who whenever they fail always blame others and dump
extra work on them to cover their institutionalized Soviet style incompetence.