The Surgery's Gone Down the Plughole

That's bad behavior.

Out of interest, I have just looked at our nearest private hospital. Definitely using NHS colours, . But definitely no sign of the NHS logo, or any mention of the NHS on the first click of its website.

When NHS services are being taken over by private providers, they do not want to tell us. The are even allowed to use the NHS logo and colours.

Our local news broadcasters said about a new NHS hospital to be built in Cramlington. It will be opening soon. The local shopping centre had people going round handing out leaflets, looking very much like NHS leaflets. They were for a private hospital opening up near the new NHS hospital. None of the people being handed these leaflets realised they were for the private hospital.
Privatisation by stealth.

I presume that you didnt get any other information with the letter crun?

If you live near your surgery, you could have a look in reception and see what information about Provide there is there.

Thanks DJ, I Googled Provide but didn't find anything. It seems they've got a finger in about twenty different pies here, including a school even. They're also managing two of the other practices that got poor ratings from the CQC last year.

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It's happening in other parts of the country, no GPs when GP is ill. How long will it take to plug the gap.

Thanks, Ana. I did a search for provide and the first four pages were just provider, so I gave up.

www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-1479296015/registration-info

So was that link. Hope this one is better.

www.provide.org.uk/about-us/

Just been looking at Provide's website.
It says that Jane Hentley is registered with the CQC as Provide's manager, but on the CQC website, there is no Provide registered that I can find.

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Very curious.

Just had a letter saying "I am writing to inform you that NHS England have appointed Provide as the temporary provider". What does that mean???

I notice that there's a new practice manager, with the old one promoted sideways, and the GP name on my prescriptions has changed twice in the last month.

Wasn't it introduced as a result of incidents like this?

My sister is a retired GP who was a senior partner in a NZ practice. Around 20 years ago, she fancied taking a break and working in Cheshire for six months but was told exactly the same thing, despite having worked in England both as a GP and hospital registrar early in her career. She got round this by going to another county as a trainee - paid on the same scale as GPs so must have been the best paid trainee in England. That was - and still is - one of the silliest bits of red tape that the NHS ever dreamt up.

Oh my word. Yes, leave the UK for a year now and you have to retrain. I have a very fed up GP friend who wanted to swap with an aussie for a year, they both had to cancel when the new law came in.

Nurses and teachers all have to retrain now after leaving the job for a year. The advances and changes in procedures made during that time can be huge.

On TV this evening, a Beccles surgery that's short of GPs has just recruited an English GP who has been working in New Zealand for the last 15 years.

After she got here she was told that she's not allowed to work without retraining.

Anya - I had the Xiapex injection. I found out about it from the British Dupuytrens Society. It was approved by the FDA in 2010 and is available now in the UK. I didn't want the surgery becsuse of the risks and the reoccurrence rates but also because I couldn't be out of action for that long because of work. I was able to find out which hand surgeons in my area had experience of using this injection and then asked my GP to refer me to the one I chose who was the most experienced. Is your cord very pronounced? Apparently that means you are more likely to be suitable for the injection. Anyway if you want anymore info please feel free to PM me - it might sound grisly but I took before and after photos which show ehat a difference it made. There is no permanent fix but it's much better than it was

Much better, GrannyTwice. I'll have to find out if the other grandmother knows Bill Nighy and try and forget about Thatcher.

My GP says there's no treatment bar surgery when it progresses, but then he's a bit of a waste of space anyway. Would be pleased to hear more about your treatment G2

Never heard of Margaret Thatcher. Is she a celebrity?

Ex had that Anya, he was fine after the op.

I prefer to say that I share DC with Bill Nighy. I had it treated two years ago with what was then a relatively new treatment and whilst it's not perfect, it's much better than it was and has only regressed a bit.

How do you feel about having the same problem that Thatcher had?
Although she had a few more than that.

I'm going to conquer it through will power Jen and stick two fingers up at those Viking ancestors....it's probably the only two fingers I'll be able to straighten anyway .

My grandson's other gran has that, Anya. She's Danish. She can have an operation on it, but she hates hospitals, so is waiting until it's absolutely necessary. Even in countries with good socialist governments, you can still hate hospitals.

Contracture

Our practice does operate appointments on a Saturday. In fact I've just been this morning and diagnosed with Dupuytren's Contraction. It would seem that the family myth about Gran and that Norweigian Sea Captain is probably true

Cameron has today promised seven day a week NHS if he is elected.

This is what he said in 2010 about GPs.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7575592/General-Election-2010-Conservatives-pledge-better-patient-access-to-GPs.html

Don't believe him, believe it or not.

Last Thursday, the nurse was saying that two of the remaining four doctors are also working out their notice, so that will leave just two for 16,000 patients. She said "ooh no, the surgery won't close" but she was a bit short on ideas where they were going to find more doctors.

Apparently, they managed to recruit two new doctors a while back, but they only stayed three months. If their contracts were on a three month notice period, they must have handed in their resignations the day they arrived! I wonder what horror they discovered that they hadn't seen from the interview.