tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827924.post5918564475783853486..comments2023-10-17T09:48:29.273+01:00Comments on The Brown Stuff: GPC report 15 October 2015Dr Russell Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406043714226331927noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827924.post-56961767638752764532015-10-27T13:44:00.919+00:002015-10-27T13:44:00.919+00:00Free healthcare to yet another group who have neve...Free healthcare to yet another group who have never contributed to support the system when the NHS is seriously understaffed, and patients who have paid for the service their entire lives are unable to get care can really only be taken as yet another indication that the powers that be wish to destroy the system.<br /><br />They already allow the acute sector to demand 'overperformance' bonuses on the block contract and legally mandate significant cuts in practice budgets, mandate increases in staff salaries, and take advantage of the fact that GPs have no route for promotion to strip out any potential salary increase based of years of service. This in turn reduces any incentive for someone to work in the primary sector and further destabilises the community/primary sector. Most of the approaching 55yo GPs I know are planning on quitting and we already know about the massive workforce shortages in GPs, nurses and HCAs for all the community teams, and yet there is no political will to incentivise trainees (how many trainees would be willing to enter a job with a guarantee of no increase in income for the next 20 years)<br />One assumes some of this is because practices and community trusts are badly represented in the political arena, but my only real conclusion is that someone in NHSE wishes to destroy the national health system and switch healthcare into the private sector.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com