| If the College, ADGP, Divisions took the time to talk to GPs they would find that the views expressed by Richard & myself and those of Alex and Horst ( the Death of Individual Responsibility) regarding Divisions Accreditation etc are commonplace. We too were close to telling AGPAL to bugger off this time but relented. After our impending accreditation we will not be lining up again.
On 09/08/2006, at 10:00 PM, Richard Hosking wrote: Divisions remain largely irrelevant to me. I have had little contact since resigning as Director and Treasurer of the local Division after we amalgamated with the one next door in 2001. When I went to their AGM last year it seemed that not much had changed. They are not "member based organizations" but NGOs whose main customer/funder is Govt. Their role is to facilitate govt programs by their local contacts with GPs and others. If they would grasp this nettle and become more realistic, I believe they would be more acceptable to both Govt and GPs. Some of these programs are indeed potentially useful. The problem is that I dont believe Divisions in general are competent and robust enough to achieve such a difficult task - many of them barely survive doing very little in the cocoon of full Govt funding
While Divisions attempt to be independent political players, they upset both Govt and the other GP organizations. Unity is a perpetual intractable problem in GP land. Probably the best way to achieve it would be to kill off a few of the players R
Greg Twyford wrote:
Wal Tracey wrote:
On 31/07/2006, at 10:24 PM, Richard Hosking wrote:
Richard Most people would agree that a national deidentified dataset may be valuable in the future. I can see a big push looming from ADGP to drive their agendas using the existing infrastructure of the Divisions
This is our opportunity to kill off the whole divisions apparatus. We should studiously ignore them and all their projects.
Wal,
You see no value in Divisions, even in their local activities which most try to make relevant to members? I admit that we have become less able to be self-directive and respond to local needs and more bound to objectives determined in Canberra, but I'm surprised you are so negative.
Yes, we mostly wonder about ADGP too, and we've been making our concerns felt as best we can.
Greg
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