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    It might help if they advertised their jobs as efficiently as they disseminate their news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niall Fernie View Post
    It might help if they advertised their jobs as efficiently as they disseminate their news.
    Or if they had been a little nicer to the Only Medical Consultant they had left in the hospital.....

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    Let me think lack of Junior Doctors
    Lack of Medical Consultants
    Lack of GPs
    Difficulty in recruiting in ALL of these fields yet they say they will carry on with non training junior Doctors ( love to know where you are going to magic these from more Locums ) and Locum Consultants ....fine mess this is isnt it....

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    Yes things are not good in Caithness but the NHS is in crisis in the whole of the UK as this article points out, re the NHS in England http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...funding-crisis There are no easy answers and if I knew the answer maybe I would be slightly wealtheir than I am now.

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    Accepted the NHS is in crisis in many parts of the UK but what we have here in Caithness is beyond belief.

    There is no doubt in my mind that there is an alternative motive going on here.

    There is no way management can say we have been actively recruiting yet we have seen very little national adverts in the appropriate magazines. I'm sorry but sticking stupid wee posts on Caithness.org is really a waste of everyone's resources. Senior staff not local to this area are not going to be scanning Caithness.org for jobs ( sorry Bill ) they are looking in the national magazines for their speciality for the most attractive positions with the most attractive pay to reward them end off. No one is going to come to Wick in its current mess. There is no long term future, there is no job satisfaction..... hello management just go onto the shop floor and speak to your staff they are most of them at rock bottom. Staff are overworked, undervalued, undermined, opinions ignored and most definitely as far as Im concerned underpaid. There has been over the years a bullying issue within Caithness general at ALL levels NEVER appropriately addressed admit it !! In which other hospital would you get away with one member of staff telling another publicly your lot should be put in a boat and sent home.....yip you guessed it Caithness General makes your golliwog issue seem tame. !!!

    The latest Consultant left after only a short tenure WHY. Was the consultant made to feel so welcome and supported even if they were not up to scratch ? Were they given ample opportunity to settle in and find their feet or were they thrown in the deep end with not so much as a paddle ??

    Were management on the face of it at least nice to this Consultant? Or is there any truth in the story that they were horrible to them.....if its not working out grow a pair of balls admit you employed the wrong person and give notice.

    I cant wait for the new model for Caithness General to be rolled out as there will still be the age old saga of recruitment unless its a case of instead of it being a nurse led maternity unit as has been tried for in the past ..... its a nurse led hospital with a few emergency doctors thrown in the mix !!!
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    Does any one know if they have the same difficulties recruiting and retaining resources in Orkney and Shetland, or is this confined to Caithness General Hospital

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    You should just ask what happened to Dr Shallcross, and that will give you an idea as to what is happening at Caithness General.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cptdodger View Post
    You should just ask what happened to Dr Shallcross, and that will give you an idea as to what is happening at Caithness General.
    What happened to Dr. Shallcross?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
    What happened to Dr. Shallcross?
    From what I understand, and forgive me if I am wrong because it was a while ago my GP told me this, his working conditions were changed quite suddenly (what was changed I do'nt know) he did'nt want to change them so had no option but to leave. He certainly was'nt happy about it, and to be honest neither was I, the only reason I agreed to move here was because he was at Caithness General. I say him, but I mean a Consultant that had enough knowledge to treat me. I seemingly have quite a rare condition, which very few of the GP's I have had here have any knowledge of, let alone Consultants. I honestly would not have moved here had I known he would not be replaced, and he wont be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cptdodger View Post
    From what I understand, and forgive me if I am wrong because it was a while ago my GP told me this, his working conditions were changed quite suddenly (what was changed I do'nt know) he did'nt want to change them so had no option but to leave. He certainly was'nt happy about it, and to be honest neither was I, the only reason I agreed to move here was because he was at Caithness General. I say him, but I mean a Consultant that had enough knowledge to treat me. I seemingly have quite a rare condition, which very few of the GP's I have had here have any knowledge of, let alone Consultants. I honestly would not have moved here had I known he would not be replaced, and he wont be.
    There were many factors as to why he left not necessarily his working conditions more like the way everything was heading with the hospital.Again management didnt exactly try to make him stay after all the dedicated years he put into establishing and running the service here. He stated on many occasions the service could not continue as it was they didnt listen to him then but look what they are saying now ......

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    As I was saying, it was just a comment made in passing by one of the numerous GP's I had. But the feeling I got was, if he didn't like it, leave. As you say, look at the mess we are in now.

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    Is there a recruitment and retention issue with Orkney or Shetland NHS service provision ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by neilsermk1 View Post
    Is there a recruitment and retention issue with Orkney or Shetland NHS service provision ?
    I do'nt know about that, but I do know the Consultants (if they are still there) only deal with general medicine, and do'nt specialise, as in there are certainly no gastroenterologists and so on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cptdodger View Post
    I do'nt know about that, but I do know the Consultants (if they are still there) only deal with general medicine, and do'nt specialise, as in there are certainly no gastroenterologists and so on.
    A bit like it was general internal medicine consultants with an interest in certain fields however its been a long time since we have had a gastroenterologist. In general there is a recruitment crisis nationwide.

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    The only reason I know that about the Shetland's and the Orkney's is because my Gastroenterologist was off sick and I needed to find out about medication I had been put on, and ended up phoning half of Britain (that's what it felt like anyway) just to try and get some advice. I'm not blaming the Consultant for being off sick, but I was left high and dry due to an awful lack of Gastroenterologists in our region. If it had carried on I was going to ask if I could get transferred back to Ninewells in Dundee, but that's a different NHS region, so I doubt they would have allowed it.

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    I see the adverts are out for Rural GPs based in Caithness General and a Consultant with a special interest in Geriatrics. I take it that the redesign of services has concluded and a pathway forward for Caithness General has been discussed and agreed and everyone knows whats going to happen now with our hospital
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alice in Blunderland View Post
    I see the adverts are out for Rural GPs based in Caithness General and a Consultant with a special interest in Geriatrics. I take it that the redesign of services has concluded and a pathway forward for Caithness General has been discussed and agreed and everyone knows whats going to happen now with our hospital
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    Why would anyone in the NHS let the paying customers know what they have decided on our behalf. The service we get isnt even 3rd rate. Keep taking the tablets Alice.

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    There was a separate thread about NHS travel costs, but I can`t find it, so will throw my hat in the ring here.

    Seems as a result of two staff who used to do the outreach cataract surgeries in Wick both being on maternity leave the list gets longer, but Golden Jubilee hospital at Clydebank are trying to take up some of the slack seeing ten Highland patients a week. If anybody is lucky enough to be offered the opportunity to have their surgery at Clydebank do not be daunted by the distance. The hospital put you up in the adjacent Beardmore Hotel for two nights and pick up the tab for the room so no outlay. NHS highland only pay 15pence per mile travel by car, but if you go to the cash office behind the main reception the cashier there can refund 16 pence a mile, and his google map says the journey is longer than the inverness calculation is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by neilsermk1 View Post
    Why would anyone in the NHS let the paying customers know what they have decided on our behalf. The service we get isnt even 3rd rate. Keep taking the tablets Alice.
    I saw this 4-5 year ago and had to leave Caithness for access to a hospital close at hand that could give me more than just the "pills" Alice. On reflection the hospitals down in Newcastle area have all the facilities staff on hand but the wait to see them is terrible, even appointments waited for 6 months get cancelled at the last minute for staff reasons, it is country wide the problems, at least living in Caithness I could see my GP Dr Brown in Canisbay the same day if not the next whilst down here your lucky if an appointment is within 2 weeks, seeing the practice nurse is just as bad if not worse. Times I wish I was back North.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tonkatojo View Post
    I saw this 4-5 year ago and had to leave Caithness for access to a hospital close at hand that could give me more than just the "pills" Alice. On reflection the hospitals down in Newcastle area have all the facilities staff on hand but the wait to see them is terrible, even appointments waited for 6 months get cancelled at the last minute for staff reasons, it is country wide the problems, at least living in Caithness I could see my GP Dr Brown in Canisbay the same day if not the next whilst down here your lucky if an appointment is within 2 weeks, seeing the practice nurse is just as bad if not worse. Times I wish I was back North.
    Tonka, the GP appointments in Thurso are not much better, If you can get an appointment its probably with a locum you have never met before.

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