Doctor who cut waiting times to zero quits - NHS shocker
This is tragic: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6746153.stm
A 52-year-old award-winning surgeon is quitting Britain to work in Switzerland and blames "disillusionment" with the NHS for his decision.
John Petri, an orthopaedic specialist at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, will leave next month.
The doctor cut waiting lists and won a Medical Innovation Award in 2005 for a "dual surgery" technique for the hospital serving Norfolk and Suffolk.
He wanted other hospitals to use the technique but he says it was shunned.
In the theatre anaesthetists at the James Paget Hospital prepared the next patient while he was operating on another.
For a man who was given a prestigeous award for making a big contribution to patient care other hospitals should have been queueing at his door to find out how he got his witing list down to zero,instead after a conversation with the PM it took six months for someone to come to JPH to see what it was all about and then did no more about it. I think there have been improvements in the NHS but they have missed out on a "biggy" here. WHY?
Posted by: DENNIS DURRANT | June 14, 2007 at 09:29 AM
Maybe he will come back as a higher-paid consultant and they will listen to him?
Posted by: jackvinson | June 15, 2007 at 04:48 AM