According to Pulse Today, GPs legal representatives are very concerned about changes to GP fitness to practice hearings being fast tracked. There is a new body replacing the GMC body which fomerly handled such cases and there are concerns that GP's may not be properly represented in such circumstances.
There is a chilling parallel to our own situation here - nobody sets out to be incompetent or inadequate, surely. But the question I am increasingly being asked by colleagues, whether locums, managers, pharmacy owners, is "is there something that we keep me as comfortable as my present income does, because it's becoming a real worry that just doing our jobs could lead us into trouble?"
Follow the link to the article below and see what I mean. Surely, if GPs are worried now, as well as pharmacists, where are the people going to come from to continue operating our professions and the services which we provide in good faith, if we are too frightened to act. So much for a Code of Ethics. We seem damned if we do and damned if we don't.
In the perscution of so called "witches" in the 1600s, witchfinders stated that "good" witches (those who used herbs to cure ailments, or called charms to resolve a worry) were more evil than "bad" witches, (those who used their "powers and skills" for malevolent purposes), and thus the "good" witches deserved greater perscution that the "bad" witches.
That was 400 years ago. What it must be like to live in "enlightened times"!
Fears over introduction of 'fast-track' GP fitness to practise hearings
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=4126443&encCode=7546292312BC559139429JTBS737226611
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Friday 18 June 2010
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Check these out but don't forget to keep checking back, as we will gradually be releasing improved versions of the site with new features including your own Private Page, which will allow access to a range of additional features, from your on-line diary, accounts management and a whole lot more.
We know things appear to have been quiet this past moth or two, but in the background we've been working on the web site and a number of new features are ready or nearly ready.
Weve started with some simple and basic things and yes, they're free!
Have you got to a pharmacy to discover you've forgotten your Responsible Pharmacist Notice, or got home and realised you've left it at the pharmacy you've just been working at and won't be due there again for a while?
We all know we have to display the notice, or we are committing a criminal offence, so what do you do (apart from panic and hope the Inspector doesn't call today)?
It's easy!! Go to our web site www.locumpharmacistuk.com and click on the link to downloads and hey-presto, caramba, golly! You can enter your details and print off a Responsible Pharmacist Notice for the day, or whenever you need one.
Other handy downloads are a Locum Invoice if you need to submit your claim and have not got one available or have left yours at home, as well as your Responsible Pharmacist Notice.
There's a Duty Pharmacist Report template too - much better than leaving a load of Post-its, and you can take a copy of what you have put on your report in case you need to refer to it later.
What's that you say? You can't download these files? Well our clever IT Web Monkey has added a FREE Adobe Reader download to solve that problem too! So there you are, useful, practical tools to offer sensible solutions to the day to dat crises we all face on occasion.
Simples!
Check these out but don't forget to keep checking back, as we will gradually be releasing improved versions of the site with new features including your own Private Page, which will allow access to a range of additional features, from your on-line diary, accounts management and a whole lot more.
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