Consultants ‘allowed’ to use time for private work
Tuesday 13th July 2010, 2:57PM BST.
Health Minister Anne Pryke
THE Health Minister has defended hospital consultants who work privately during publicly-funded time.
According to Deputy Anne Pryke, consultants who work sufficient overtime are allowed to take time off in lieu to undertake private work. It is a practice which she says works well and, importantly, helps to attract ‘high calibre’ consultants to Jersey.
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But does it work well and for whom? Too many short stay locums if you ask me?
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Ahhh…..I think I understand. It’s really just like having a partime job, but you can take time out to earn extra money when the opportunity arises. Why don’t we all do that ?
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I wonder what they’d say at my work if i told them i’m off to do another job but they’re footing the bill and i’ll try and make up the time when i can.
Anne Pryke should not be in charge of any such departments.
A complete joke!!!
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In any other job you would be SACKED for moonlighting and any regulator would ban you from working for endangering peoples lives.
Why do they need to do private work while being paid by the states?
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Same old same old…they have been getting away with murder with this for years,Ann Pryke is just allowing more of same which works like this,Rich paying clients…no waiting,x-rays straight away,operations bought forward,all mod cons…poor people wait …and wait…and wait in the hope they’ll bog off,and yes I can cite loads of individuals many of whom were paid off in the end as the standard service became atrocious…Little Grove big bucks…hours waiting. just wages.It’s wrong and another example of the lack of dynamism in this weak politician.
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How is this possible when we have HUGE time lapses between referral from the GP and the appointment time. WHY are we paying our SS contributions for such an appalling service?!
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Deputy Pryke is right,on the issue of the long established practice here and in the UK, of hospital consultants,being able to take on private work.Public Health is in effect subsidised by those whom have invested in private health insurance at considerable cost.That is part of choice and further enhances the quality of treatment of those whom are unable to afford it.
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One would be interested to ascertain the weekly contracted hours of the consultants.
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‘attract high calibre consultants’ – not from what i’ve seen in the press over the past couple of years!!!
One consolation we have long since come to term with the States ability to waste money so it no longer comes as a surprise!!!
What is it that when a normal human being becomes a States member logic deserts them – ah well!
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At the same time we could ask Ian le Marquand about the level of Jersey police officer’s pay, there will not be any answers there either.
Pip Ozouf and Terry le Sueur have a business plan with £20M worth of unallocated taxes that may not be passed through the States.
One of the lead items in the plan is funding for a Jersey Police Authority. We have waited years for this, money might be allocated but it may not happen, promises are easily made but they are also easily broken!
Millennium Park anyone?
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As long as the stated overtime isn’t paid then I don’t see how we can have a problem, but then the article does say ‘during publicly-funded time’ which would suggest that the taxpayer is paying for the overtime. If the overtime is paid then the time of in lieu shouldn’t be!
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Can you read what she said?
“consultants who work sufficient overtime are allowed to take time off in lieu to undertake private work”
So basically, if a consultant does 10 hours overtime per week (presumably unpaid), they can take 10 hours to work privately another time. That’s what ‘in lieu’ means… and its perfectly standard and reasonable. Although if Leah is correct about the above, and the States pay the overtime as well as giving them time off, then that’s pretty poor.
If you stop hospital consultants working overtime, then you can be sure to wave a fair percentage of them bye bye which would, despite may people want to believe, be a huge loss to the Island.
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Conflict of interest????
Why pay for someone to do a job when they are allowed to “moonlight” elsewhere?
Surely the extra time they may have to work “privately” would be better suited to working extra hours with their main employer instead….i.e. us, the taxpayer!
This sounds like having your cake and eating it!
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