on yer bike, doc
It is increasingly difficult to get doctors in the Borough to do home visits and now it is likely to become impossible.
Why?
Because the 102 doctors in the Borough will no longer have access to a resident parking permit.
Instead, the Council has told them to use public transport or join a car club.
For a doctor, a car is an essential working tool. Even more so for those who cannot afford to live in the Borough and need to commute in and do home visits.
To deprive them of access to a permit is sheer madness.
One doctor told the Dame that it was hard enough recruiting doctors and this move raises the bar even higher.
This is a crazy idea: of the 35,000 permits issued doctors are a minute proportion.
The deputy leader who is a fount of commonsense should bash this idiotic idea on the head.
I am a vulnerable person and cannot get to the surgery. I rely on home visits and anything(like this stupid idea) that makes life difficult for doctors also makes life difficult for patients like me.
ReplyDeleteI am a vulnerable person and cannot get to the surgery. I rely on home visits and anything(like this stupid idea) that makes life difficult for doctors also makes life difficult for patients like me.
ReplyDeleteWhat on earth is the thinking behind this. It looks like another example of officers with too little to do scratching their heads and coming up with rubbish ideas. Bin it.
ReplyDeleteAlready impossible to get a home visit in Holland Park area. This is unlikely to make any difference to the normal folk living round there!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely ridiculous, it demonstrates yet again that some of these officers making decisions like this care nothing for residents, especially vulnerable ones. Councillors need to sort this out ASAP.
ReplyDeleteMore of the nonsensical, non-joined up thinking that is prolifferating among the anti-motor vehicle people gaining power in our local goverments. What next - ambulances? Police cars? fire engines? let them walk or take their bikes. Cars and parking permits for our GPs are necessary, and as an older person I feel deeply saddened at what is happening to our country.
ReplyDeleteThis needs to be knocked on the head by Kim Taylor-Smith who has a surfeit of common sense.
ReplyDeleteWe already have a situation where the GP surgeries in the borough cannot attract salaried GP's or locums & cutting the small perk of eligibility for parking permits only makes it even harder to attract medics to serve the borough's residents . We are constantly told that government is going to adopt joined up thinking & that RBKC seeks to work closely with health providers . This does not seem to be the reality . As others have already pointed out - we currently have c150 GP parking permits and more than 33,000 general permits - Is this perhaps the most egregious example yet of RBKC officers using a hammer to crack a nut . Or is the Dame aware of other examples ?
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