Disgraceful, but is it relevant that they are English?
To be honest the ‘English’ part of this headline is really fricking irrelevant. It’s an exploitative firm that’s been taking over surgeries that financially shat themselves and the fact that the partners are English doesn’t actually matter in the slightest.
They fucked up massively and in an ideal world they should be struck off, and the surgeries brought back into LHB control until they can be stabilised.
My surgery (in torfaen) was one of those that they took over after the previous partners gave notice to the health board and since then it’s gone to utter indescribable shit. Patients aren’t being seen, staff are miserable, the clinic itself looks like it’s out of Chernobyl.
When will we learn that privatisation of critical services is really fucking dumb.
Companies only take over services for one reason and that’s profit. Contracts mean nothing unless they’re expertly crafted, include an exit clause, and are regularly policed, in this case by the HB.
The HB should be holding them responsible, not just when the press get hold of the story but every day of every week where the standard of service is not up to scratch. That of course is assuming it’s all covered in the contract.
Part of the problem is the LHB has allowed them to become too big to fail. If they remove all of these contracts without a significant plan in place then suddenly it’s more patients than the existing surgeries can handle to disperse. Especially as for some it will be large distances to the next surgery for people.
It was an easy win for the LHB to not have to worry about managing the practices, and they are reaping the rewards of poor diligence in awarding the contracts.
Oh I know all about this one. The GP surgery is very useless now and no one wants to work there now. No GPS or locums are being paid not surprised. This is in Pontypool by the way.
Surely it’s about time that GP surgeries are run by the local health boards, rather than private companies? They could save a lot of money by centralising HR and payroll etc, rather than each surgery having to run its own, as well as reinvesting the ‘profit’ to improve services for the patients.
There’s no chance of help, especially when the local MP won’t even turn up to emergency meetings
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Disgraceful, but is it relevant that they are English?
To be honest the ‘English’ part of this headline is really fricking irrelevant. It’s an exploitative firm that’s been taking over surgeries that financially shat themselves and the fact that the partners are English doesn’t actually matter in the slightest.
They fucked up massively and in an ideal world they should be struck off, and the surgeries brought back into LHB control until they can be stabilised.
My surgery (in torfaen) was one of those that they took over after the previous partners gave notice to the health board and since then it’s gone to utter indescribable shit. Patients aren’t being seen, staff are miserable, the clinic itself looks like it’s out of Chernobyl.
When will we learn that privatisation of critical services is really fucking dumb.
Companies only take over services for one reason and that’s profit. Contracts mean nothing unless they’re expertly crafted, include an exit clause, and are regularly policed, in this case by the HB.
The HB should be holding them responsible, not just when the press get hold of the story but every day of every week where the standard of service is not up to scratch. That of course is assuming it’s all covered in the contract.
Part of the problem is the LHB has allowed them to become too big to fail. If they remove all of these contracts without a significant plan in place then suddenly it’s more patients than the existing surgeries can handle to disperse. Especially as for some it will be large distances to the next surgery for people.
It was an easy win for the LHB to not have to worry about managing the practices, and they are reaping the rewards of poor diligence in awarding the contracts.
Oh I know all about this one. The GP surgery is very useless now and no one wants to work there now. No GPS or locums are being paid not surprised. This is in Pontypool by the way.
Surely it’s about time that GP surgeries are run by the local health boards, rather than private companies? They could save a lot of money by centralising HR and payroll etc, rather than each surgery having to run its own, as well as reinvesting the ‘profit’ to improve services for the patients.
There’s no chance of help, especially when the local MP won’t even turn up to emergency meetings
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