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GP workload is spiralling because a third of PCTs have ordered hospitals to refer patients who fail...Around a third have also barred consultant-to-consultant referrals, forcing GPs to re-refer patients rather than allowing them to be referred between hospital departments. GP leaders hit out at hospitals increasingly dumping work on GPs. They warned hospitals were forcing practices to issue ...
Rising bureaucracy and longer working hours are leaving one in three GPs unhappy with their work...Of 1,659 GPs who responded to the poll, 33% said that they were 'not very happy' or 'very unhappy ... % of GPs said the amount of administrative work they did had increased in the past year. Click here for full results from GP's workload survey Half of GPs responding to the survey said workload had ...
with commissioning groups and undermine their autonomy, GP leaders fear....staff would contravene the practice-based contract. In January, the NHS Future Forum called for the GP ... appointment systems and lay off staff to cut costs ( GP , 18 November 2010). Now DH officials plan to adapt ... working with senior GPs was looking at how the post-reform NHS can drive improvements in primary care ...
As GPs face ever-greater pressure to contain prescribing costs, a stark contrast is emerging...care, a trend that looks set to continue. GPs have faced up to the challenge of rising drug costs ... to 3.4% in 2010. In addition, the DH has published comprehensive data on prescribing by every GP ... and the zealous scrutiny of GP prescribing 'has been a long-standing issue'. 'GPs have their house in order ...
GP leaders have urged practices to refuse to sign the deals, warning that CCGs have no power ... because practices must be members of a commissioning group to hold a GP contract. NHS Confederation ... the agreements were 'inappropriate' and GPs should not sign them. 'CCGs need to be encouraging engagement ...
In all but a few shining pockets of the NHS, GPs' relationship with primary care organisations has...instructions that GPs, via emerging consortia, should at last be involved in any decisions they take. Despite predictable reluctance from some managers to embrace GPs after spending years in an often adversarial relationship, many PCTs have finally brought out the peace pipe. GP reveals this week that some GP consortia ...
-enforced closures rise, a GP analysis has found....Twice as many GP contracts are now ending per year as two years ago, PCT figures reveal. GP ... , this suggests around 1.2% of GP contracts in England ended last year. Though some were replaced, the average ... % of contracts ending in that year and retirements made up 14%. Absorption of smaller practices GP leaders ...
are decades behind those in primary care, a GP investigation has found....trusts in England responded to GP's request for information. Some trusts claimed implementing such benchmarking would be impossible or pointless. Manchester GP Dr Anita Sharma, a member of Oldham medicines ... -effective prescribing efforts begun in primary care years ago. 'This is a process GPs have been through for the past ...
Being a rural GP can be tough. We are far away from the comforting nipples of the general hospital
Nearly 40% of GPs in the UK took part in a major BMA opinion poll. Susie Sell looks at what...opinion poll suggests. Almost 40% of the UK's entire GP workforce took part in the poll, which reveals ... substantial reorganisation in the NHS in England and threats to pensions, and it is not hard to see why GPs are feeling the strain. GPC deputy chairman Dr Richard Vautrey says that while GPs are reporting 'very ...
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