The UK-wide GP contract is heading for collapse in three to five years as NHS reforms create a...-wide contract would lead to further fragmentation of health services across the four nations, GP leaders said. It could also widen gaps in funding between GPs across the UK.
The 2011 LMCs conference in June voted ...
would have its own GP contract by 2016 as a 'Celtic contract' across Scotland, Wales and Northern ...
08 Feb 2012
| by Professor Rodger Charlton
in the two countries and indeed in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
GP magazine's front page on 9 December last year was headlined 'UK GP contract is close to collapse'. Commissioning is a big issue in England ...
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Rurality In England there are few areas where GPs work in rural and remote locations. Wales is a country ...
24 Mar 2011
| by Nick Bostock
GP leaders and accountants have urged GPs to check they received correct pay....Hundreds of GPs may be able to claim back thousands of pounds in seniority pay for the 2007/8 financial year, according to accountants.
GP leaders say repayments have already been made to many GPs ...
is lower than the interim figure used to calculate payments to GPs.
As a result, GPs who were entitled ...
Practices in Wales may have to join emerging GP consortia in England, GPC Wales has warned....are registered with GPs in England, and 19,000 people from England are registered with GPs in Wales.
'Nobody ...
the issue with England's health secretary Andrew Lansley.
'Discussions are taking place with GPs ...
agreements and protocols,' he added.
The Welsh LMCs conference will also look at GPs working ...
30 Mar 2011
The existing NHS complaints system unfairly blames GPs for errors across the health service...The conference of Welsh LMCs in Newport heard how GPs were often the only named professional ...
, of Morgannwg LMC, said GPs were 'being held to account for failures that are beyond our control'.
'The GP ...
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'Secondary care loses referrals and it's the poor GP who has his name on the whole process ...
critically underfunded, a GP investigation has found....here for the full GP investigation results
As part of the 2009 National Dementia Strategy ...
been launched in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. GP found that 7.5% of PCOs still do ...
similar prev alence of dementia.
GPs warned that the lack of investment in memory services meant ...
12 Mar 2012
| by Marina Soteriou
GPs at the Welsh LMCs conference last week called for more funding for out-of-hours care and warned local health boards (LHBs) were asking GPs to 'refuse to triage patients' or asking non ...
to deliver 'improved access to GP surgeries in the evenings and on Saturday mornings'.
Bridgend GP Dr ...
03 Jun 2011
Appleby found.
GPC Wales chairman Dr David Bailey said spending cuts would inevitably hit GPs. 'GPs are the gatekeepers of the NHS. Unfortunately when there is more stress on health care, GPs act like a sponge and absorb the extra work,' he said.
Dr Bailey said GPs would have to deal with patients waiting longer ...