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Hi all, has anyone else started a new thread yet?

Good morning all,

I joined dict8 at the beginning of the month. I was just wondering how they paid us - is it by cheque? Also, when I go to create an invoice it says they like us to send it at the beginning of the month. What happens if I submit it today? Thank you.

Terrible dictation again today! What on earth is going on.......

@YellowBellyLola invoices are now sent online through the website. It is very easy. I expect if you send an invoice today not much will happy until they pay out on 1st August. They do pay by cheque.

@YellowBellyLola I send my invoice any time through the month and always receive a cheque within three days.

Thank you for your replies. I didn't want to send it in and then get told off... I got enough of that in the first couple of weeks of typing 😂

@YellowBellyLola they normal lull you into a false sense of security before lashing out !!!!

I am typing away and the system does not seem to be picking up some of my keystrokes - anyone else having this problem ?

No, I haven't had a problem.

Dictation lately is the pits! I have the same five sat blocking new ones coming through that have been there since midday Friday! Absolutely ridiculous......thank goodness for other work......😖

Like you, 25 years as a Med Sec, have always used capital letters for drugs. It's so hard to type in lower case. I find some of their rules petty and bizarre.

I added a speciality last week so have gone back to more regular feedback...

Man alive!

Capitalise clinic names but not headings (eg I type Past Medical History and they corrected to Past medical history). I mean really?!

The chuffing not capitalising meds other than brands - I work for the NHS and this going to be a hard habit to break!

And I disagree with at least two corrections.

I hadn't had feedback for months and I'm starting to wish I hadn't bothered adding another speciality now!

@deflatedbirthday that's what happened to me a few years ago - it wasn't a popular specialty and they had few takers, they asked, I obliged, and then I got annihilated. Never again !!!!

@Meha5a I just feel a bit deflated by it to be honest. It's all so so picky! It is nothing that a patient would bat an eye lid at. I understand the need for some some consistency but I guarantee that there is less consistency with each individual NHS secretary. I find it so bloody patronising!

I totally understand Headings for me are capital letters per word also. drugs capitilise, took me an age to get that in my head, now don't do it. Perhaps the secs at the hospital sort it themselves, or it was agreed this is how we send them, i wonder if they have feedback meetings.

I've had a couple of feedbacks today, one was telling me a line i could not understand due to bad sound quality, how is that going to help me in the future!?
the other one was i should have put the name of the clinic in the brackets with the date, its one way or another make up your mind.

I've asked for feedback on a dictation today regarding typing out blood result x109/L with the 9 being made into the power. I can't transfer it via word without it defaulting as above and the system goes to 3 and if you try to alter the number it goes back to "9" again. Anyone help with this or am i wasting my time. Only one dr dictates it like this.

good news though. I got a short spacked out dictation of seconds so i put on a note to say missing dictation and was paid a line for it. so a note = one line. FYI

I was shocked! Had another stupid "use a template" one later another short one of 8 seconds so that was 2 lines, i typed the hospital number out in between lol

I've just had more disheartening feedback. They seem to be obsessed with pedantic picky criticism.

They should be very careful how much they try to enforce as that goes against the whole idea of being self employed and I feel they are treading a fine line between agency worker and an employee. Except of course then they would have to pay minimum wage!

Anyone heard of private practice management ltd think im goin to be picking up some work with them anyone have any feedback with them?

@Lindsaychad123 I've heard of them, actually applied some time ago, but withdrew once I was told the rates of pay - not very good, but they may have improved

@Lindsaychad123 is that just transcribing or do you have to do the whole PA thing ?

I’m just gonna do transcribing

They quoted me 60ppm, has it gone up any?

Hi no it’s still 60p per min. I’m just looking for another source of work as Dict8 does not fill my days

@Frazzledbynature : I have those dictations sometimes where there is no dictation .. in the notes box I put in the notes box something like 'no dictation on this task', I do get paid a line but that is because I have already typed the date at the top of the letter (the date line is what is paid)

You are lucky - mine still says processing from Monday. Wish they would pay by BACS. Heading away next week and worried it won't be through in time.😩 This lark is soul-destroying at times (did I spell that right?)😂

Sorry couldn't get just that one bit of quote. I think another way to type the power of is to put it like - ^9 from what I can remember.

In my one yesterday i got paid a line just by inserting a note saying no dictation, i didn't put in a date, just had feedback, i'm surprised they didn't moan that i didn't date it lol

I got told i typed out something wrong, something a) never heard of before and told its in the medication list. I never refer to any medication list!
and b) if the dictation isn't clear enough how am i supposed to know if its right, i would have found the word i typed as a correct medical term so nothing i can do about that.

I then got told off for putting too many spaces one being a bullet point with the date. I don't bullet point my dates ever as i use a template so over my head with that one too.

the quote was what was dictated, just the hospital number and what i quoted and had to be put in as a note. Sorry it made no sense, dict8 does that to the brain 😵