GPs 'must be able to sack CCG boards'
24 May 2012 | by Stephen Robinson
Practices must be able to sack CCG leaders if they fail to deliver, LMCs have said.
Graham Knight discusses the evidence the practice needs for the registration form to show compliance with the CQC's essential standards.
Practices must be able to sack CCG leaders if they fail to deliver, LMCs have said.
Details of the areas covered by all 212 proposed clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England, as well as their budgets and constituent practices, have been released.
Graham Knight explains Care Quality Commission registration enrolment and what practices need to do.
QOF 'box-ticking' has become so arduous that it now interferes with GPs' ability to deliver traditional primary care and should be frozen for two years in light of commissioning reforms, LMCs have said.
NHS patients will be able to choose when and where they receive common diagnostic and monitoring tests, including blood tests and heart scans, under DH plans.
LMCs have called on the GMC to work with the BMA to develop a standard appraisal system which will be accepted for revalidation.
Hospitals that overcharge for care should be viewed as committing 'fraud', and failing to tackle the issue will 'kill' GP commissioning, an LMC has warned.
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LMCs have backed industrial action over 'unfair and unnecessary' cuts to NHS pensions, and backed plans for GPs to pull out of commissioning as part of the action.
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