Roger Boyle
Vulnerable practices receiving £10k lump sums as NHS managers 'rush' out funding
Getting notification to apply for £10k doesn't seem very professional. What are the strings? Will it be clawed back. If you have to spend it by the end of March what does it go on. Too much for a couple of PCs, too little for a major capital expenditure. It does give HMG soundbite a " we have generously offered practices X million pounds"
Chancellor announces £100m towards GP triage in A&E departments
The big problem is that if it isn't an accident or an emergency then patients (or are they customers?) should not be seen and told to leave the department.
Scottish GPs may not be given a vote on new contract
I'm not sure how anyone can say the current changes are "welcomed" unless we are given a vote. No one has asked my opinion
Boost GP services before cutting beds, says Stevens
Shouldn't these provisions been made made years ago, before bed occupancy rates were in the high 90's?
Same thing happened years ago with psychiatric care. Wards were shut BEFORE adequate provision was established in the community
They will never learn!!Practices to receive £250 for 'patience and hard work' in dealing with Capita
£250??
GP training set for swingeing cuts as education bosses told to find 30% savings
So if you cut funding for GP educators, and abolish nursing bursaries, it will certainly improve GP and Nursing numbers in NHS. #theyjuztdon'tcare
Budget sets aside £7.5m for GP ‘cluster’ working
£7.5 million for the whole of Scotland?
Peanuts!GPs, it is time to face the elephant in the room
What is the difference between a salaried service where GPs are employed by the government (and the government would be liable for sick pay, holiday pay, locum provision, post graduate education) and large practices where individual doctors have little or no control?
I'm not advocating a salaried service but surely that is as attractive to most doctors than working in a very large practice , where they would still have financial liabilities?GPs will be 'consultant physicians' in 20 years, says NHS England medical lead
I know it is a crazy idea , but couldn't General Physicians be General Physicians and GPs be GPs (or Consultants in Primary Care)?
Yet more of secondary care workload being dumped on primary care(with very little if any extra funding), and I suspect without any consultation with our secondary care colleagues either.RCGP launches £9,000-per-practice GP rescue scheme
Sorry struggling practices have to PAY £9000 to RCGP???
I'm sorry I'm confused (not that hard!!)Out-of-hours GPs are keeping hundreds of thousands of patients out of A&E
More money needs to be spent in OOH, &, Primary care. End off.
Everything else falls into place if this is dineGP partners will struggle to increase take-home pay by 1%, predict accountants
Not really a surprise is it?
An alternative future for general practice?
That is more information than I've heard from the Scottish negotiators (and technically I thought the contract was to start on 1/17 but there have been delays)
GP contract deal comes with 3.3% overall uplift to funding
I assume any practice that is an MPIG practice will get no new money as the correction factor will be reduced by the same amount as the increase
GPs to do reviews of severely frail in place of scrapped unplanned admissions DES
Doesn't sound like a reduction in workload
GPC chair writes to NHS England requesting QOF suspension this year
Shame they weren't suspended on day 1 of "New Contract".
GPC chair writes to NHS England requesting QOF suspension this year
Shame they weren't suspended on day 1 of "New Contract".
GPs offered £100 per hour to run evening and weekend surgeries this month
Is this in OOH or in surgeries where they would need to pay reception staff, practice nurses, heating and lighting?
Scotland to review public holiday cover for health and social care
I assume that hospital outpatients, routine elective surgery and day hospitals will be open over bank holidays also?
GPs in A&E and care homes can cut unnecessary attendances, says Hunt
Can we see the evidence for this?
And could I also see the evidence for higher hospital death rates at weekends?
