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  1. Good Afternoon Mr GreenKnight. I reflected on this on my commute to the city this morning squashed in the train, filled to the brim, and no sign of a cup of tea anywhere. Hmmm let me think....... that sounds like a normal day on a ward to me. 35 years in the NHS is in deed an admirable service - and I genuinely tip my cap to you sir for that. Anyone that stays in one industry dilligently for 35years, and still has unwaivering support for thier employer - deserves to be respected. I commend you for holding firm to your ideals - it is part of our society that recognises we are all different that makes the UK the best place to live. I wish you a happy and propsperous retirement with your lovely tax payer supported CPI linked final salary pension attached. No disrespect to you sir - Im bored with this. Lets go and see what other havoc I can create by giving a balanced argument elsewhere. Toodle loo.
  2. Oh Jolly Good. What a fabulously balanced perspective. Lets go back to the beginning of my engagement here. I initially wrote on this blog - because I had a good experience of this organisation and the service offered by people who work within it, and I felt that the rhetoric here was not a fair reflection on them. That view hasn't changed, and actually - I'm more concerned about the everyday staff who are part of this company - knowing that there is a section of society that has this unbalanced view about what they are doing ! Whilst I knew the voicing a divergent and supportive view would prompt a backlash - and the devil in me says thats more than OK - what I am more interested in (now) is what motivates people to be so directly opposed to what the NHS themselves describe as innovation. Illustrations anyone ? Did we reject chemotherapy for cancer, because that was and is still created by the evil that is private industry taking some cash from the NHS - I doubt it. When we last visited the dentist - did we object to local anaesthetic - because that was created by a profiteering corporate entity - that was taking money out of the NHS. I doubt that too. Did anyone say - Oh no - don't give me that new Dynamic Hip Replacement Joint, because that too was developed partly by taking money from the NHS - and oh dear I wouldn't want that - I will have the one I prepared earlier with clay from my mothers garden. But the GP's of this fair county should be burned at the stake for daring to be different. It's time to get a grip. My cohesive reflection on this somewhat disjointed and fragmented thread is (and granted there are some quite lucid views) there are users, voicing a somewhat personal dislike of Taurus. Some of this seems driven clearly by an abundance of what prima facie seems "Insider Information". That doesn't feel at all balanced to me. there are some that want to articulate concern about the decay in the provision of our NHS services, I don't disagree with that, but that isn't a direct result of a new organisation forming and filling a gap in the market. there are those that have a disproportionately biased view of what the GP should and shouldn't do / how much they should work, and when they do anything extra - this should be done - for free ! Try telling that to your plumber or electrician when you need one out of hours. I took the time to read the GP contract from 2005 that Green Knight refers too - yes - sad I know, but reading it - one gets a clear understanding that the negotiating out of out of hours visiting and appointments - was done in return for a REDUCTION of the capitation based payment. And as for those lamenting the innovation that is the computer in General Practice - and would rather see a reliance on the good old fashioned "knowing the patient" method of medical record management. Oh dear - in an increasingly complex clinical environment - where there is an abundance of co-morbidity and correlation - nope - we don't want that sort of innovation - I'd rather run the risk of dying because my GP forgot that they couldn't give me medication "A" with medication"B" That isn't the "modern standard of healthcare" that I want for my family, and it shouldn't be for yours either !
  3. Not Bruised at all Bobby, after all not all will see things through one eye. Thank you for such a warm and embracing welcome. I feel comfortable in the bosom of such genuine fellowship. You seem to know a lot more about the landscape of Healthcare than I do so I will of course bow to what is obviously a greater degree of knowledge about this environment. I clearly know nothing. I described the availability as brilliant - and that was my experience. I don't relish going to the doctor any more than any other - but I am balanced in my view about the service I get, as long as it is what what I need when I need it. Thats what was perfect. After all - we don't pay to see the doctor here in the UK as they do in other parts of the world - so I don't mind getting what I percieve as a good service, funded by my taxes, and why shouldn't we recognise that. I guess if your glass is 1/2 full - itsa different perspective to that when it's 1/2 empty, got a crack in it - and someone knocks it over on thier way outside to throw stones at thier reflection. For the record - Like you, I have no interest in Taurus - but unlike you its clear you know someone who is a lot closer to this than I am.
  4. I'm dismayed that this company is being so poorly portrayed by the ill informed. Have any of the posters to this forum actually used the 7 day service that Taurus offers? I have - It's brilliant ! I saw a GP at a convenient time - that didn't require me to take a day off work. Perfect ! The other patients who I have spoken to absolutely love it. Why shouldn't GP's be paid what they are worth in the market ? It's not like we are buying apples from a local orchard ! Have you not seen - there is a shortage of GP's nationally - and if thats what they can earn - after 6 years at university, 4 years of post graduate study, and really bad work life balance - who are we to criticise some of the brightest people in our community for being paid properly - would we rather they left and moved to London to earn the same money ? Crackers !
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