Big_Bird
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 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:03 am Post subject: With all the fuss about Sicko, this might be topical... |
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This article highlights one problem with the British NHS. It is not possible to see a doctor on the weekend. This can be a problem for both employee and employer. The employee might not get around to checking a problem as soon as they should, and the employer loses man hours.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2132065,00.html
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�1bn cost of waiting to see a GP
Business leaders are to deliver a tough warning to the government that employees are spending millions of hours a year sitting in doctors' waiting rooms during office hours because of the lack of weekend GP clinics.
Three and a half million working days were lost last year because employees had to see a doctor during working hours, according to the Confederation of British Industry. This was more than four times the number of days lost to industrial action in 2006.
In an unprecedented move, the CBI is writing to Health Secretary Alan Johnson asking him to give urgent consideration to opening doctors' surgeries on Saturdays and Sundays instead of making it a weekday-only service.
The CBI, which is preparing a report that will call for a shake-up of GP services, estimates that the total cost to the economy is around �1bn a year, based on the fact that people visit their GP an average of three times a year and that the average hourly pay rate is just under �11. |
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