Well done, BMA

Reducing admissions and referrals will probably involve a lot of work by all GPs in their practices in order to:
a) review their stats and check errors in data sent by hospitals
b) becoming more proactive of keeping patients at home which will mean more work for GPs
c) allowing some of their GPs to work in commissioning which will mean more work for all because locums do not cover the work of a missing partner

Why would a GP practice engage in all this extra work for NO reward?

I don't think the BMA should be applauded, I think they should find a solution. Or do they really think we are going to do all of this for free? GP Commissioner

Yes 'GP Commissioner' commissioning is going to be a lot of hard work, it always was, and a bunch of highly trained experts did it. However they did not get bonuses and were not paid a mini fortune to do it. Certainly not the GP hourly rate. LaLa has not done this to make Commissioning even more expensive, so bonuses for doing what PCTs have been doing anyway does not make sense, and it's not going to help the health care budget. A Christopher

Would the Government be so consistently nice to GPs if it thought it was giving them a fair and manageable deal? PCT anon

This isn't fundholding you know - you won't make savings by "checking errors in data that the hospitals have made". ML

Back in 1989 I said we should have withdrawn our labour and reversed the wrong turning taken by the Stalinist Labour government of 1948 rather than concede the principle of clinical priorities being set by polluticians. The BMA never gave us a strike vote. Thanks also to the first wave fundholders for selling us out.
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Now, principles conceded and only haggling about the price, here we are again after 2 decades of perpetual reorganisation. The only certainty is that there will be another reorganisation in about 5 years when this one goes toes up.
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Told you so. Stephen Hayes