Dominic Faux
Don't be fooled by the Emperor's New IT System
Not sure I've ever used taste in my assessment of patients (certainly since the advent of Glucostix!)
PHE: GPs should 'prescribe shorter antibiotic courses and educate patients'
PHE would be better spending their time lobbying for a decrease in antibiotic use in animal husbandry, rather than patronising clinicians.
£4.5bn primary care funding will relieve pressure on GPs, promises Hancock
Do you seriously believe this promise. It sounds like not a lot of money with strings attached.
I would be very wary of any promises from the light-weight App-man Hancock.This 10-year plan is part of the same plot to finish off general practice
Once again, Kailash Chand nails it. Excellent analysis, and very very scary.
MPTS extends suspension for Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba by six months
Tinpot corporals promoted above their ability and our respect.
'Bulk of doctors' back revalidation processes, says GMC chief
He hasn't got a clue. Overpromoted apparatchik is being found out by his own stupidity.
GMC chair apologises to doctors for ‘fear and anguish’ caused by Bawa-Garba case
I suppose we must be glad for even a smidgeon of insight into the huge damage caused by the GMC.
The GMC is an executive branch of the Department of Health in all but name, populated by placemen, crawlers and has-beens.Why I retired early
I retired largely because of revalidation, and the dreadful performance of the GMC. That was 5 years ago. I now spend time with grandchildren and play the alto saxophone.
Keogh: GPs 'undervalued by the NHS at a time we need them the most'
It is quite extraordinary that cocooned apparatchiks in London discover the importance of General Practice intermittently, then do nothing.
This man must be judged on his record, which is pretty dire.
Fine words butter no parsnips.'Professor Field has lost the confidence of the profession'
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Professor Steve Field says GPs have 'failed as a profession'
The money squandered on inspection could have been used to fund the front line.
The CQC is now probably worse than Ofsted is for schools; arrogant, unsupportive, arbitrary, eccentric and loathed by active clinicians.
Steve needs to tell us he was misquoted, and set the record straight.GPs’ CQC fees to increase more than six-fold within two years under new proposals
Well, this useless organisation that has done nothing for recruitment, retention, quality and morale wants to hike up their fees.
Pay 6 times more for a kicking! Anyone remember their cack-handed attempts at 'intelligent' monitoring?
So glad I have had nothing to do with it!Former health secretary Andrew Lansley given a peerage
A new depth has been plumbed by the current administration.
A seat in the house of Lords for Mr Lansley?
Totally unbelievable, foxtrot/foxtrot/sierra.Hunt: 'I've yet to meet a doctor who doesn't want seven-day working'
I would like the politicians to work less hard. I would give them 11 months off in the year: that way we won't have to put up with their useless legislation, hare-brained ideas, and policies that serve their corporate masters.
GPs have been spotted trying to escape the country by climbing into lorries en route to Dover
Excellent blogpost, Samir. I wished I had written it when I was practising and blogging as the 'Jobbing Doctor'.
The responses are very revealing, and feel like a co-ordinated response from the DoH press office.
Is there any way that the individual people who were so aggrieved by a satirical article could be checked?
It is either initiated in Richmond House (Department of Health Offices).
I'm retired now, so I will use my real name (and not my nom-de-plume).I can’t be the fall guy any more
Phil, I retired. It's flipping wonderful.
As the Romans said "Modo Fac" which, translated means 'Just effing do it'
Dominic (aka Jobbing Doctor)Revalidation is not a waste of time
Revalidation was one of the reasons I retired early. Now, Mr Dickson might think that is unimportant, but I'll bet there were plenty of others like me.
It is pretty typical that he is not listening to the views of the profession.GPs set to screen millions more for dementia under 'significant' expansion of enhanced service
There is not point in this process, as it is not screening, and has no value in either short-term or medium-term.
Why are they focussing on this? Is it due to pressure from pharmaceutical companies?NHS 111 providers ordered to appoint GPs to redirect cases towards primary care
I'm afraid that 'Dame' Barbara Hakin has either little understanding of General Practice, or doesn't care.
I have no confidence in her abilities.GPs to be offered incentives to delay retirement under £10m strategy to solve workforce crisis
Oh Dear; NHS England don't really have a grasp on why there is a crisis, do they?
I retired at 60: none of this would have made me stay a day longer.
