YET ANOTHER official is seeking to clarify what transpired between the board of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) and the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) in last week’s failed talks.
QEH director of human resources Charmaine Napoleon-Ramsay yesterday stressed that the doctors were aware that the sole matter for discussion at the table last Tuesday was a performance appraisal instrument which BAMP itself had proposed.
“I sent them an email last Monday and they didn’t respond. They came to last Tuesday’s meeting apparently surprised and confused that the performance appraisal system was all we would be discussing.
Recalling that BAMP had first submitted the proposals regarding doctors’ terms of employment in January, she said the board had responded on July 22 stating, it could not consider those proposals because they were outside of the remit of terms approved by the Ministry of the Civil Service.
Chief executive officer of the QEH, Dr Dexter James, who delegated Napoleon-Ramsay and Clarke to represent the board at the meeting, queried why BAMP had attended if it knew that the only item which could be discussed was the appraisal instrument.
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