As providers (both primary care and specialists) and our patients gain more experience with this type of consultation, if the rate of virtual consults increases, we may experience improved access to specialists for patients who do require a face-to-face consultation.
At the very least we need less secret briefing and more public consultation if this promise is to be abandoned".
But you know, if you'd give me the name afterward, I'll be glad to have him over for another consultation, if you know what I mean.
CONSULTATION If you want straightforward advice — like, "Is it time to move my mother to a nursing home?" — set up a consultation.
"It's not consultation if every time we meet and we say, 'We don't want the pipeline here,' they don't change their agenda," he said.
Still fearful, she cold-called cardiologists, offering to pay for a consultation if a doctor would just look at her medical record and family history.
In that instance, the patient is encouraged to seek repeat consultation if the condition persists, worsens or changes in a concerning manner.
"The case law is clear that something has to have gone 'clearly and radically wrong' with consultation if the courts are to intervene: as this was one of TfL's biggest consultation exercises, this could prove difficult," Smyth says.
I have no problem at all with consultation if there is a chance that ideas will be listened to, but at the moment it seems the unions are the only ones willing to make a compromise.
The Culture Secretary revealed that there would be a further consultation if he felt he needed to make adjustments to the undertakings he had made when provisionally clearing the deal in March.
"Local councils will say this is what we need and this is the way we want to do it, but if something comes up which falls outside that framework then it goes to consultation: if they don't have the guidance in place then there's the potential for their concerns to not be taken into account," it said.
