Comments on: Midweek Medicine: Saying “No”

By: Follow-up Fail | Music, Medicine, and the Mind

Follow-up Fail | Music, Medicine, and the Mind — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:01:21 +0000

[...] the charges of private practitioners, and the other teams within our service (as I discussed in an earlier post) are in service-limiting mode, making it very hard to refer on for further follow-up, and raising [...]

By: Allen Fraser

Allen Fraser — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:06:48 +0000

Very good. The only change of emphasis which may make your point better is that the other "boutique" services (IF they contribute value) have an ethical duty to make that available as widely as possible. The challenge is the balance between not turning away those in need, and not being overwhelmed so that nobody benefits. Your point (that acute adult general services have done that for years) is the necessary challenge to boutique owners to (in the public sector) provide for more than a minority of those they could help.

By: mater

mater — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:55:10 +0000

bravo! espec. paras 5 and 6