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I certainly think we need to ditch all of the useless telephone advice lines and get our GPs on call again out of hours, rather than paying obscene amounts of money to foreign locums, many of whom have had no sleep for days and, in some cases, don't even have a decent command of our language!Re: A&E In Crisis
On the Island, one set of GPs pushed and pushed to be given the same new contract as in the UK (no doubt threatening to leave the Island if they didn't get what they wanted). The Isle of Man Government was concerned given our lack of alternatives so the GPs suggested setting up MannDoc which pays GPs around £90 per hour to man the service. Strangely enough, those shouting the loudest of wanting more family time instead of being called out were some of the first to apply to cover the MannDoc scheme.Re: A&E In Crisis
Couple of things come to mind from my last visit to A&ERe: A&E In Crisis
I have had brilliant treatment out of hours, the last time just this past year, we had to ring the emergency number, and was asked a lot of questions.Re: A&E In Crisis
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Are you folks in South Australia? only this morning there's an article in the paper describing the chaos in A&E ward in our hospitals, there've been umpteen stories/requests in the news lately advising people not to turn up at the hospital unless it actually is an emergency, especially on Friday/Saturday nights but it's said that the drunks, druggies etc aren't the type to read newspapers anyway so don't know any better and ambulances are being distracted from real emergencies to patch up city drunks/hooligans who've been fighting and really only need a band-aid and to sober up for a few hoursRe: A&E In Crisis
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Minor ills clog hospital service
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