This is standard in every hospital I've ever worked in, the hospital pharmacy is there to dispense for the inpatients/wards/clinics and not for community scripts. You go to your chemist for those.
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This is standard in every hospital I've ever worked in, the hospital pharmacy is there to dispense for the inpatients/wards/clinics and not for community scripts. You go to your chemist for those.
Basically this.
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Realy? i doubt it. ok sure they are for profit, but they are not fully private.
Based on selling and supplying IT services and consultancy to the public sector for 20 years, I think this is pretty insightful and correlates with my experience.
When friends of mine started in the civil service they took anyone and spent years getting them accountancy qualifications. Most were no good and they were the ones that stayed. The people with an aptitude for it went elsewhere in the private sector for more money. The skilled professions within the civil service can't keep good permanent people.
I worked a lot with these guys in recent years:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service
The cabinet office took a completely different approach. Hired half the team behind the Guardian's digital services on high salaries, got hundreds on skill contractors in under them and gave them carte blanche to go kick some butt in other departments to get better digital services up and running. They are a great success story as far as I'm concerned in the public sector.
Someone also mentioned it's hard to progress far up the grades. I think this is relevant because the real world competency for a particular grade and their pay is not so dis-similar from the private sector but it takes years to get there.
For example looking at this document a Grade 7 in London is in the pay scale of £48K-£58K plus the generous benefits. Now every Grade 7 I've ever known has been a middle manager with perhaps 4 - 6 people under them managing something fairly straightforward. The equivalent of a middling PM in my company who would be paid about the same. The thing that's different is that unless they were on a civil service fast track scheme it's taken six very regimented and formal promotions to get there and so they're about 10 years older than they would have got there in the private sector.
We have both mate, this is a Healtcare at home one, they used to take them but for some reason they stopped.