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Although GP commissioning consortia will be unable to provide healthcare services, the White Paper ... . GPs will retain the freedom to choose the legal structure best suited for their federation ... and limited liability partnerships. Understand options My aim is to help GPs understand the main ...
As independent contractors, every GP partner has a duty to provide appropriate premises, but it does not necessarily follow that they must have a financial stake in them. A GP partner may occupy ... ) independent financial adviser about the various funding options. Indeed, you may find that some traditional GP ...
Fair profit-sharing clauses in partnership deeds are crucial for GP partners, says Lynne Abbess....is essential. However, this may not always be straightforward. Life was simpler in the days when GP partners ... . Be flexible These days, many GPs have a 'portfolio' lifestyle. It is quite common for partners to keep ...
Dr Hal Maxwell says that belated measures to protect GP dispensing fail to remove the threat facing...Historically, dispensing in Scotland by GPs has been primarily in rural areas where populations ... . In these circumstances health boards 'required' GPs to provide a medicines dispensing service to their patients. What in many practices started off as a GP handing out pills from a cupboard in the consulting room developed ...
GPs may be able to claim relief following the sale of their share in the surgery premises, explains...of 10% (for disposals after 23 June 2010). Retiring partners A retiring GP partner could never make a gain on disposing part of a GP partnership as GPs are forbidden from selling the goodwill of a ...
Dr Iain Barclay and Sara Williams explore how the buck stops with GPs for errors made.... VICARIOUS LIABILITIES Common cases the Medical Protection Society has dealt with where GPs have ... be continuing and should include a degree of appraisal/assessment of competence. GPs should ensure ... Sally, a 30-year-old singer, visited her surgery complaining of earache. She was not seen by a GP ...
Dr Peter Mackenzie throws light on why certain claims brought against GPs cannot be defended....in the three years up to 2010 shows the top four reasons why some claims against GPs cannot be defended (see chart). While there are risk mitigation techniques that GPs can put in place, the most important ... /gynaecology. Of the claims brought against UK GPs in 2009, one in five related to the investigation, diagnosis or treatment ...
The introduction of commissioning consortia present GPs with new challenges. By Dr Nick Clements.... The introduction of commissioning groups will put GPs in the forefront of these changes, and give rise to new ... abolition of PCTs and setting up GP consortia which will take on the responsibility for commissioning decisions. All practices will belong to a local consortium, and some GPs will be working within ...
GPs should bear in mind that paternity testing is not a routine investigation, says the MDU's Dr...about paternity testing from their GP, or even requesting that the GP arrange the test. We are occasionally contacted by GP members who have been approached by patients requesting paternity testing. Members ... . GPs also question whether performing such a test falls within their area of expertise. GPs ...
GPs should alert patients who refused last year's swine flu vaccine that it is included...The DoH said GPs only need to obtain consent for the vaccine itself and do not need explicit consent for the swine flu component. But the GMC and the Medical Defence Union (MDU) advised GPs to explain this to patients who had previously refused the vaccine. One GP leader warned there was a risk ...
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