Dr Simon Fradd
Dr Simon Fradd's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Simon Oakley
- Sex
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Male
- Date of Birth
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20/4/1950
- Foretitle(s)
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Dr
- Surname
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FRADD
- Style
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Dr Simon Fradd
- Recreations
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DIY, gardening, skiing, gliding
Dr Simon Fradd's Professional Career
- Career
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house surgn Westminster Med Sch 1977; (UNIV.LONDON) SHO: in paediatrics Queen Mary's Roehampton 1978, in neonatology Whittington Hosp London 1979, in A/E then orthopaedics St George's Tooting 1980-81; registrar: in surgery Burton Gen Hosp Burton-on-Trent 1981-84, in urology Univ Hosp of Wales Cardiff 1984-85; GP trainee: Burton-on-Trent 1985-86, under Dr Saunders Nottingham 1986-87, Castle Donington Leics 1987; GP princ Saunders & Fradd Nottingham 1988-; chm: Hosp Doctors' Assoc 1979-82, Negotiators' Hosp Jr Staff Ctee 1986-87 (dep chm 1984-86), Jr Membs' Forum BMA 1990, Doctor Patient Partnership 1997-; dep chm Gen Practitioners Ctee of BMA 1997-; memb Med Practices Ctee 1989-93, Gen Med Servs Ctee negotiator 1993-; memb GMC 1989-; Freeman City of London 1976, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Needlemakers 1976, Liveryman Worshipful Soc of Apothecaries 1993; Hon FAMGP 1998, Hon MRCGP 2000, FRCS
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- (COMMENT : trained eight years in hospitals as a SURGEON before becoming a GP)
Dr Simon Fradd's Publications
- Books and Publications
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Hospital Doctors' Association Guide to Your Rights (jtly, 1981),
Making Sense of Partnerships (jtly, 1994), Nottingham Non-Fundholder
Project, Members Reference Book RCGP (1995)
GP who laughed all the way to the bank: He's the millionaire
doctors' leader who destroyed out-of-hours care - while securing a
bumper pay deal for his colleagues. Ashamed? No. He thinks it's a 'bit
of a laugh'
By
Tom Rawstorne
PUBLISHED:
22:01 GMT, 3 June 2013
|
UPDATED:
06:42 GMT, 4 June 2013
Britain's
out-of-hours health care is in crisis — and the Mail has launched a
major investigative series to highlight the true, shocking scale of the
problem. Yesterday, a consultant at a major A&E unit revealed the
devastating knock-on effect it's having on emergency care. Today, we
reveal the inside story of how GPs got a massive pay rise while opting
out of caring for their patients round the clock...
With
a bejewelled chain of office where his stethoscope once hung and an
ermine robe to boot, Dr Simon Fradd has every reason to look as pleased
as punch. This is the man who, in 2004, helped to negotiate arguably the
most generous public sector pay deal in modern British history.
Representing
GPs, he and his colleagues at the British Medical Association not only
secured what turned out to be a 50 per cent pay rise for family doctors,
thanks to new bonuses — but also managed to ditch their obligation to
provide care in the evenings and at weekends.
For more than half a century that round-the-clock responsibility had been the bedrock of GPs' contract of care with patients.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335400/GP-laughed-way-bank-Hes-millionaire-doctors-leader-destroyed-hours-care--securing-bumper-pay-deal-colleagues-Ashamed-No-He-thinks-bit-laugh.html#ixzz2VFAv7geV
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