Niall Bacon
Government rules out review of pension tax charges
How about a mass exodus from the pensions scheme altogether? Having a few billion less in government income might make them sit up and notice?
NHS bans practices from sending notes on CDs contrary to DH guidance
I have just stopped my secretary from sending paper notes, as this was using and wasting a huge amount of her time. We now send CDs and will not be reverting to paper. NHSE should think about the effect on frontline services before issuing these edicts. If my secretary is wasting time printing off vast reams of paper, then not only is this increasing our staff costs at a time when our MPIG is being cut, but will result in delays in referrals and other important secretarial work, with delays and patient harm.
Practices to pay almost £2,000 more in CQC fees from April
Absolutely outrageous. We need a campaign of non-payment.
Figures show widening shortfall in GP training with 20% of places unfilled
This is a recruitment crisis, so what is needed is improvement in pay and conditions to make the job attractive - that means a significant hike in pay and abolishing the red tape that makes the job insufferable - QoF/CQC/revalidation.
Over one third of GPs 'may retire' within five years, warns BMA
8-8 7 day week will see even more rushing for the exits..........
Medical schools warn students: 'Fail and become GPs'
I don't think you can blame the deans for speaking the truth.............
Practices must provide hard copies of GP earnings information
Someone needs to challenge this under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.
Rise in A&E attendances caused by NHS 111, emergency medicine leader claims
Aha, so will Jeremy Hint now apologise for blaming GPs?
QOF 'has led to reductions in emergency admissions'
So will Mr Hunt now humbly apologise for blaming GPs for rising hospital admissions?
NHS England aims for 'as many CCGs as possible' to commission GP services from next April
CCGs evolving back into PCTs. So we go through a massive expensive redisorganisation of the NHS to end up back where we started...........
Hunt to tackle GP burnout by reviewing 10-minute appointments
Having hammered our pay, raised our pension contributions, and pregressively eroded the tax relief on pension contributions, is it any wonder so many of us are retiring early?
GPs to contact patients individually to explain care.data opt-out
This is crazy. NHSE could simply write to every patient in England, sending them an opt out form for patients to submit to thier practice if they wish, with a deadline to do so.S orted!
Seven-day access to GPs for all patients, promises PM
The usual disconnect with what's actually happening on the ground, doesn't Cameron talk to Hunt and Alexander?
No funding increase for six years and abolition of MPIG - where does he think the resources are going to come from?We don't want millions more patients on statins, says NICE
And what happens when a patient who gets IHD sues us for negligence on the basis that we failed to prescribe according to the prevailing wisdom?
Over 2,000 hospital training posts should be axed to fund GP expansion, recommends DH review
How unimaginative - we'll force doctors to train as GPs because they can't get hospital training posts......well surely junior doctors will look at Australia etc and leave.......the only way to promote a positive view of general practice is to stop clobbering GPs, pay us properly and stop micromanaging us with referral management centres, downgrading our gatekeeper role, stop trying to control prescribing......... in other words give us back the autonomy that made our job worthwhile........morale is the real problem, and I have never seen morale amongst my colleagues as low as it is now........
Negative media coverage partly to blame for GMC complaints doubling
And don't forget the demise of local complaint mechanisms caused by the reorganisation into NHSE as a contributory factor.
Practice closures 'not always a problem', NHS England says
All part of the cunning plan to put GP services out to tender to the big corporates and end the corner shop GP provision (which patients prefer)..........
NICE gives green light to divisive 'bundled' diabetes QOF indicator
Practices will need to consider whether it is economic to continue providing diabetic checkups, or to withdraw the service completely (and presumably refer all to the hospital diabetic clinic, just like the good old days!)
GPC negotiates extension to named GP deadline as practices face extra paperwork due to lack of IT codes
we're EMIS and using the code 67D5 for this, and will run the code conversion program to convert to 67DJ when the code arrives.........hope this helps some of you
GP responsibility for out-of-hours care to be reviewed as Hunt attacks 'inaccessible' primary care
Mr Hunt needs to be careful. There has effectively been no increase in resources to general practices for over five years, he has raised our pension contributions, and imposed further unremunerated work on GPs with his imposed contract changes. Morale is low. He should not be surprised if the profession becomes more militant in its views, and less cooperative. This is not the way to go about industrial relations, unless his intention is to cause a mass exodus of GPs.
