Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/25/poll_scandal/
NHS docs in online poll rig scandal
Vote themselves massive pay hike
Posted in Public Sector, 25th April 2006 10:07 GMT
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The Nursing Times is currently running an online poll to gauge public opinion on whether or not GPs should be allowed, in some cases, to trouser a whopping £250k. An anonymous sawbones writes:
hiya
i see the nurses hitting the headlines today with their big conference on in bournemouth
if you remember the recent government spin on how gp's earn 250k then this nursing survey [1] is very interesting
they haven't seemed to notice that you can vote repeatedly :) and myself and many of my GP colleagues seem to be doing just that!
"you can lead a nurse to water, but you can't make her think...."
regards
Ahem. The results are, then, fairly predictable:
[2]
Scandalous. We wouldn't object so much if GPs spent less time taking clinical heroin and fiddling about with their appointment software on their PCs while telling five-year-olds with saucepans on their heads to quit smoking and come back in a week if it hasn't cleared up. We have made our dossier available to the authorities. ®