Some NHS insanity

It should be unbelieveable.

How do we score points? (MAKE MONEY IN NHS)

1. The government is keen for all GPs to offer ten minute appointments. You can solve all the problems in the world in ten minutes. Seven and a half minutes would not be long enough, and fifteen minutes would be excessive. We do ten minute appointments. We did last year. We will next year. So we fill in the form.

“Do you do ten minute appointments?”

"Yes."

That scores 33 points or, to put it in terms understandable to the taxpayer, £12,335.40. Ker-ching….

2. The practice will undertake a patient satisfication survey. Four hundred questionairres put out in the waiting room, just like last year. 25 points. £9345.00. Ker-ching…

3. The practice will reflect on the patient survey and produce an action plan. 20 points. £7476.00 Ker-ching…

4. Having done the survey and produced an action plan, the practice will describe how it will report the findings to the patients. 30 points. £11,241.00 Ker-ching…

Money for jam. 30 odd thousand pounds - that's 90,000 nz dollar - for putting out 400 questionaires, collating the results, talking about them and sticking a notice up on a wall for patients to read.

That's the total salary for some GPs in New Zealand. Speechless!