[Margaret Pilkington]

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2) Get rid of the endless streams of paperwork that accompany the useless targets that get set for us. Yes, the NHS has to show that it is worth the investment, but taking up medical and nursing time filling in forms, cooking the books and fudging the figures is not conducive to providing good patient care. Get rid of spurious paperwork and allow medical staff to do the jobs they are paid for.


Using Doctors and Nurses doing endless useless paperwork is a real waste of expensive, over qualified resources.
Doctors want to be treating patients, Nurses want to Nurse patients, not fill in forms that show they are doing their job.

One of the reasons that I retired when I did, was because I was fed up with chasing targets, with the government changing the goal posts, with not being physically able to deliver the right patient care because of the mountain of paperwork that was forever landing on my desk.....I was fed up with things like Charter Mark, Bench Marking which were all supposed to benefit patient care, but which took me away from patients to attend useless meetings where policies were talked around, but hardly ever implemented.

Do we really think that Gp's want to be doing this kind of stuff........and at what cost....they aren't going to do it for 'thanks very much' they will wnat to be paid for it. How does that save money then???
Answers on a postcard to Andrew Lansley.