Hospital Doctor articles from January 2006

Hospital Doctor archives from January 2006

Is the grass greener over in GP land?(general practitioners)
January 12, 2006... While GPs' income and work-life balance have improved greatly in the last couple of years thanks to their new contract, many consultants feel they have at best stood still and in some cases gone backwards on these factors. It is having a big...

Trust's [pounds sterling]9m bill under attack.
January 12, 2006... REFORMS By Melanie Newman melanie.newman@rbi.co.uk A senior source at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has questioned whether the [pounds sterling]9m it paid to management consultants McKinsey & Co in the past 18 months...

Wards to shoulder burden of GP deal.
January 12, 2006... workload By Lisa Hitchen lisa.hitchen@rbi.co.uk Proposed changes to GPs' national contract could have huge implications for hospital doctors' workload, claimed consultants. The revised Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)...

Call to boycott chaotic patient choice roll-out.
January 12, 2006... services By Helen Gilbert hospital.doctor@rbi.co.uk The roll-out of patient choice has begun somewhat chaotically as GPs urge against using the new system until comparative information on local trusts arrives at surgeries. ...

Soft option gets softer.(General practitioners)
January 12, 2006... editorial comment Our survey comparing the lifestyles of consultants and general practitioners reveals more similarities than differences. The profession has similar ambitions and frustrations, ways of living and consuming. Quirkily...

letters.
January 12, 2006... Just who is in charge? Sir, The 'spat' over logbooks is part of a much wider debate - that of governance of the surgical profession ('RCS at loggerheads over new logbooks', 8 December, page 5). The debate is an important matter and one...

GPs secure better work-life balance.
January 12, 2006... By Helen Gilbert hospital.doctor@rbi.co.uk The average consultant works at least 14 hours more a week than the average GP, a joint survey between Hospital Doctor and its sister title Doctor reveals. The Lifestyle Survey of nearly...

Trust is criticised over [pounds sterling]9m spending.
January 12, 2006... funding The decision by a London foundation trust to spend over [pounds sterling]9m on management consultants McKinsey & Co has been questioned by senior staff there. Hospital Doctor forced Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust...

Policy U-turn from the man who would be . . .(medical reforms)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2006... ALL CHANGE: Conservative leader David Cameron has abandoned the party's former health policies and pledged greater use of the private sector in delivering NHS services during a speech to health think-tank the King's Fund in London last week....

Trainees feel inferior.(senior house officers)(Trainees on foundation year 2)
January 26, 2006... survey of f2 pilot sites By Anna Barlow anna.barlow@rbi.co.uk Trainees on foundation year 2 (F2) pilot schemes fear they will be seen as second-class doctors when they compete for jobs against SHOs who have gone through old-style...

The response.(modernising medical careers program)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2006... Dr Helen Zaklama sent MMC and Hospital Doctor a letter airing the grievances of more than 50 F2 trainees at the West Midlands Deanery 'I am pleased the West Midlands doctors acknowledge the benefits to be gained from the Modernising Medical...

'Rotations too short'.(interns)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2006... Clinical experience F2 pilot trainees are not getting the clinical experience they need to be capable and competent doctors, they claimed. Many of those contacted by Hospital Doctor said they were on three-month rotations which did not...

'Improve teaching'.(F2 pilot programmes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2006... Knowledge gaps Trainees fear there could be gaps in their medical knowledge because F2 pilot programmes don't contain enough formal teaching. All the trainees contacted by Hospital Doctor had to attend study days on generic issues,...

Brave trainees deserve better.(Editorial)
January 26, 2006... editorial comment A large number of F2 trainees are making a stand. With concerns about F2 pilot schemes being ignored locally, the trainees have been forced to look higher up and have called on the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) team...

Getting back to the golden age.
January 26, 2006... In a society obsessed with youth, elderly people are often sidelined in medicine as well as in life. British Geriatric Society president Dr Jerry Playfer explains to Marianne Curtis what first attracted him to the specialty and why he is...

letters.
January 26, 2006... tHree-day meeting, London v Paris London Registration fee, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London [pounds sterling]410 Flight price, BMI, 1 adult [pounds sterling]122.90 Hotel price, Cumberland Hotel, directly opposite...

Secret talks lead to fears of SAS sellout.(staff and associates specialists committee)
January 26, 2006... New contract By Melanie Newman melanie.newman@rbi.co.uk SAS doctors have hit out at the cloak of secrecy surrounding negotiations for their new contract. The BMA's negotiators have said details of the talks, due to be...