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Challenging the requirement to attend a WCA?
You can’t expect herbalists to know how to operate a syringe!
Going rather OT but I would rather expect herbalists to “not operate” full stop. Certainly a personal prejudice but I refer all concerned to Bad Science by Dr. Ben Goldacre and notably the staggering figures on what herbal remedies actually contain (essentially water) and the chapters explaining the placebo effect and regression to the mean.
Matter of time before my GPs receptionists are recruited for their insight and customer service skills. My bus driver would be good too. He can spot a fraudster a mile off.
Race to the bottom anyone?
Not had nurses competing like that but think I’d still prefer mine in the arm (my jab).
Re the herbalist, I was thinking of Maximus aims to carry out one million work capability assessments this year in the News section from which the following is reported:
“However, the BBC also reports that, whilst Maximus is going to recruit more health professionals like physiotherapists, it will not take on any more doctors, meaning that the percentage of doctors to other health professionals will decline.”
Race to the bottom anyone?
Not had nurses competing like that but think I’d still prefer mine in the arm (my jab).
Re the herbalist, I was thinking of Maximus aims to carry out one million work capability assessments this year in the News section from which the following is reported:
“However, the BBC also reports that, whilst Maximus is going to recruit more health professionals like physiotherapists, it will not take on any more doctors, meaning that the percentage of doctors to other health professionals will decline.”
Although given the difficulty Atos & Crapita have had recruiting enough HCPs from the vast pool of under-employed health care professionals maybe recruiting herbalists and similar is their only hope? Or maybe we should expect the immigration figures to make a further jump as they step up recruit from overseas (or have they exhausted that pool already)?
Pool! Of course- Hydrotherapists! Or Life Guards! IOr Colonic Irrigationists perhaps? Must be loads of them out there who’d be glad of a bit of extra cash.
(Must lie down and take meds…)