secretsquirrel
21-Jan-10, 00:40
As a former employee of NHS Highland I am not surprised with what I read in todays Caithness Courier concerning Union Fears over future of Hospitals in Caithness.
Their was a locum consultant Obstretrician who actually applied for one of the substantive posts when these became available the first time, while he was still employed by Caithness Hospital. This Consultant was highly thought of by both staff and patients yet failed to obtain a substantive post. Yet he was good enough to work as a locum but not on a substantive post?? It was well known that he complained to the hospital manager and other senior managers in NHS Highland about the service, was that why he was not wanted???
When the last 3 consultants where appointed they where only given 2 year contracts, again why if NHS Highland wanted a long term consultant lead maternity service???
(a former midwife) who is also quoted in the article, would frequently at meetings state "why where consultants required? and the service could be run by midwifes". Is this how she obtained the General Managers post in Caithness???
Caithness/Sutherland once again needs to standup and say to NHS Highland enough is enough. Caithness/Sutherland needs its NHS Services, especially maternity and should not have them cut.
I was once at a conference where a managerment consultant showed a diagram of NHS Services where the Chief Executive and other high ranking managers can only see the services from their windows and those services in the outlying regions are seen as specks of dust on the horizon. How true when you see the nice new build offices the Senior Managers of NHS Highland live in, with the furtherest they can see being the "Black Isle".
Their was a locum consultant Obstretrician who actually applied for one of the substantive posts when these became available the first time, while he was still employed by Caithness Hospital. This Consultant was highly thought of by both staff and patients yet failed to obtain a substantive post. Yet he was good enough to work as a locum but not on a substantive post?? It was well known that he complained to the hospital manager and other senior managers in NHS Highland about the service, was that why he was not wanted???
When the last 3 consultants where appointed they where only given 2 year contracts, again why if NHS Highland wanted a long term consultant lead maternity service???
(a former midwife) who is also quoted in the article, would frequently at meetings state "why where consultants required? and the service could be run by midwifes". Is this how she obtained the General Managers post in Caithness???
Caithness/Sutherland once again needs to standup and say to NHS Highland enough is enough. Caithness/Sutherland needs its NHS Services, especially maternity and should not have them cut.
I was once at a conference where a managerment consultant showed a diagram of NHS Services where the Chief Executive and other high ranking managers can only see the services from their windows and those services in the outlying regions are seen as specks of dust on the horizon. How true when you see the nice new build offices the Senior Managers of NHS Highland live in, with the furtherest they can see being the "Black Isle".