Simple Question

[bleepholder]

if i know someone is adamant to speak to me and is not happy about waiting their turn, i make them wait a little bit longer before seeing them...not the best thing to do but it keeps me amused!

[happy_bunny]

if i know someone is adamant to speak to me and is not happy about waiting their turn, i make them wait a little bit longer before seeing them...not the best thing to do but it keeps me amused!

I do that as well, I'm sure my counter assistants love me for it

[culchie82]

Bleepholder, I got paid the standard rate of £24 per hour, but it's not really about the money because I wouldn't go back to that place for double that. The girls themselves were fantastic, couldn't have asked for better, but it's still a lot of work for one person.They told me that the same locum never returned to the place, and it's hardly surprising. They also mentioned that a fair proportion of locums preffered to just sit on a stool and have them bring scripts over to them for checking. I'm sorry, but for any locum to behave like this is f*#king scandalous in my opinion, they're not only behaving unprofessionally - their laziness is putting more pressure on the staff. The ironic thing is these lazy shites secure the same amount of work (and more), as the decent, hard working locums which cannot be right. In my opinion the "stool brigade" should be weeded out and given as little work as possible.

[bobbin]

Bleepholder, I got paid the standard rate of £24 per hour, but it's not really about the money because I wouldn't go back to that place for double that. The girls themselves were fantastic, couldn't have asked for better, but it's still a lot of work for one person.They told me that the same locum never returned to the place, and it's hardly surprising. They also mentioned that a fair proportion of locums preffered to just sit on a stool and have them bring scripts over to them for checking. I'm sorry, but for any locum to behave like this is f*#king scandalous in my opinion, they're not only behaving unprofessionally - their laziness is putting more pressure on the staff. The ironic thing is these lazy shites secure the same amount of work (and more), as the decent, hard working locums which cannot be right. In my opinion the "stool brigade" should be weeded out and given as little work as possible.

There are also some locums who believe that if there isn't any checking to do, they can just mess about and send text messages whilst everybody else is running around like headless chickens. Of course, there are lazy staff at some pharmacies too, but this is understandable given that they're probably on 10p above the minimum wage.

Fortunately, most locums and pharmacy staff do work hard

[bleepholder]

to be fair, if i was a locum at a shop i didn't know at all, i would probably be the one sending text messages when there wasn't anything to do...after having asked if i could help out with anything of course !!!!

sadly being shackled to a bleep all day, means that i don't get to be a part of the "stool brigade" lol

[Pharmanaut]

They do - but they shouldn't. They should expect to wait their turn.

Wonder if we should start lobbying for additional fees for runs of prescriptions with 3 or more items for the same patient.
These are the ones with most of the clinical risk and where all the 'brain power' is brought to bear.

OK 3 items was just a suggestion, no doubt there are cases where even 1 item has twists and turns that take additonal time.

[mackemwonder]

Additional fees for polypharma scitpts is unlikley now PCTs will be holding our budget. More likely to see directed MURs and not dipensed schemes. Anything to drive drug costs down