Richard Hosking wrote:
Unfortunately after more than 10 years, Divisions remain without any
significant role in health and their survival seems ever less likely. I
cant see Joe average GP allowing a Division person to install a "data
extraction tool" without *very* significant incentives. I agree about
asking for contracts and guarantees - I suspect most Divisions will be
incapable of providing them.
What I said to my local Division several years ago is that their primary
"customer" was Government and their role was to deliver Govt programs to
GPs via local contacts. They should cultivate their GP contacts to this
end. This idea was not popular. I havent heard much since.
Richard,
I agree with you nearly 100%.
DOHA doesn't want Divisions to have any real power of autonomy. You only
need to see how ADGP is organised to know that.
We've already conveyed the points I raised to the ADGP person
responsible for this program. They've entered a contract without
considering how fine the balance is for Divisions in maintaining GP
goodwill while pushing government-initiated programs.
The other problem is that the government wants the world for sixpence,
as any bulk-billing GP knows too well, so they haven't considered
resourcing us properly so that everyone has the expertise. A few still
do, and in Sydney we meet regularly, or those that are still employed,
at least.
We are all having to get accredited, which may be useful, as we can
argue 'risk-management' as our reason for not doing what they ask,
unless we have appropriately qualified and experienced staff. I've had
to send my qualifications and experience details to our public liability
insurer each year, as I originally provided free technical support to
members [now done privately in many cases] and maintain our IT
infrastructure. Without this information we'd have no cover, and the
same applies to having Division staff doing 'data extraction' at practices.
Greg
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Canterbury Division of General Practice
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