The new contract in England already obliges consultants to offer additional sessions that they wish to work to their NHS employer first.
https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/c ... tract-2003
Jonathan
The new contract in England already obliges consultants to offer additional sessions that they wish to work to their NHS employer first.
Of course other factors are relevant. But if you keep those constant then I wouldn't expect that paying doctors less would increase either recruitment or retention.roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 3:23pmSure, that's a thing, but are you *seriously* suggesting that paying a job *more* results in *less* people wanting to do it?thirdcrank wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 12:32pmI don't think it's correct to describe it in the way I've highlighted. Without wanting to get into a discussion about whether it applies here, statisficing isn't a new theory.roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 12:09pm Your opinion that the shortage of GPs is down to their being paid too much is a fascinating inversion of every tenet of economic theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Achieving a work-life balance in the lingo
Seriously?
I think that's a little overdramatic, whilst a significant number are fully signed up ERG loons (upper estimates tend to be low 100s) a huge majority of them are not and even some of their fresh 2019 membership from the 'red wall' looked pretty appalled in the commons today at coked up kwasi's economically illiterate plans.
My boldStevek76 wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 6:34pmI think that's a little overdramatic, whilst a significant number are fully signed up ERG loons (upper estimates tend to be low 100s) a huge majority of them are not and even some of their fresh 2019 membership from the 'red wall' looked pretty appalled in the commons today at coked up kwasi's economically illiterate plans.
Might be setting myself up for egg on face here but if she keeps on like this I'm not sure truss will last a year.
As you're objecting to them being paid too much, presumably your proposed solution to get them to do this is to pay them less?al_yrpal wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 5:53pm .
I am suggesting that possibly if more GPs worked more time in the NHS perhaps there wouldnt be this problem with appointment shortages. The same applies to Consultants many of whom do substantial amounts of work in private hospitals there would be more prompt care and less need for many people to feel they have to go private to get faster treatment.
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Yep, that's really my point. Sure some MPs might in the mindset of expecting to lose/not caring and just wanting to rinse the country for all they can over the next two years but I think a majority of conservative MPs probably would like to keep their seats and so will defenestrate Truss if she does not dramatically improve their polling.
Are they deliberately sabotaging the economy under the assumption that when they lose the next election only the first few stone of many tons of s**t will have hit the fan?reohn2 wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 7:54pm Economist Frances Coppola's assessment on LBC of the Kwarteng's Kapitalist Konundrum:- https://youtu.be/UAhJPIH5-4Y
That's what it looks like to me too,and making a shed load of money for themselves and their supporters into the same bargain.sjs wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 8:00pmAre they deliberately sabotaging the economy under the assumption that when they lose the next election only the first few stone of many tons of s**t will have hit the fan?reohn2 wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 7:54pm Economist Frances Coppola's assessment on LBC of the Kwarteng's Kapitalist Konundrum:- https://youtu.be/UAhJPIH5-4Y
On the assumption bankers and business leaders are not totally stupid they'll recognise there is a fair chance that Truss is temporary (until the next General Election) and that Labour will likely get into power and they'll restore the bankers bonus cap, re-instate the Corporation Tax increase, etc. (they'll have to to even start to repay the interest).reohn2 wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 8:07pmThat's what it looks like to me too,and making a shed load of money for themselves and their supporters into the same bargain.sjs wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 8:00pmAre they deliberately sabotaging the economy under the assumption that when they lose the next election only the first few stone of many tons of s**t will have hit the fan?reohn2 wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 7:54pm Economist Frances Coppola's assessment on LBC of the Kwarteng's Kapitalist Konundrum:- https://youtu.be/UAhJPIH5-4Y
I've said before,the Tory party is evil,there can be no other word to describe them!
Anyone who thinks trickle down economics works for anyone but the rich is either at the top cashing in on it or are fools!
Psamathe wrote: ↑23 Sep 2022, 8:43pm
Are fracking companies going to start spending on costly sites just to face stricter regulations in 2 years? (OK, Ineos might because they believe they have a fundamental right to pollute or to be exempt from regulations https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/0 ... -lobbying/).
Ian
Fracking won’t work in UK says founder of fracking company Cuadrilla
Chris Cornelius says geology is too challenging and government’s support is merely ‘soundbites’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -cuadrillaFracking in the UK will be impossible at any meaningful scale and will not help with the energy price crisis, the founder of the UK’s first fracking company has warned.
Chris Cornelius, the geologist who founded Cuadrilla Resources, which drilled the UK’s first modern hydraulic fracturing wells in Lancashire, told the Guardian that he believed the government’s support for it is merely a “political gesture”.
“I don’t think there is any chance of fracking in the UK in the near term.”
He said that when Cuadrilla had operated here, it had discovered that the geology of the UK was unsuited to widespread fracking operations. “No sensible investors” would take the risk of embarking on large projects here, he said. “It’s very challenging geology, compared with North America [where fracking is a major industry].”