Question about NHS reforms
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Question about NHS reforms
So GP practices will have the money to buy in services.
But when money is tight won't they just choose the cheapest service on offer which probably offers the worst treatment so patients will suffer?
I don't buy the concept that patients have much of a say in all this.
Plus most GPs are poor amateurs when it comes to drawing up contracts and evaluating bids. So I suppose they will have to recruit managers to do this - probably those recently fired by their FPCs
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But when money is tight won't they just choose the cheapest service on offer which probably offers the worst treatment so patients will suffer?
I don't buy the concept that patients have much of a say in all this.
Plus most GPs are poor amateurs when it comes to drawing up contracts and evaluating bids. So I suppose they will have to recruit managers to do this - probably those recently fired by their FPCs
dl
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Might be a good idea if GPs are charged every time one of their patients turns up in A&E because they can't get to see a GP out-of-hours (or worse, have been turned away by the GP and are now a genuine emergency). It might incent them to provide a decent service again.
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God only knows why, because at the same time, the government also gave the GPs a massive pay rise.
I guess this is what Blair and Gordon would refer to as investment in the public services.
You can't really blame the GPs on this one I am afraid.
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So GP practices will have the money to buy in services.
But when money is tight won't they just choose the cheapest service on offer which probably offers the worst treatment so patients will suffer?
I don't buy the concept that patients have much of a say in all this.
Plus most GPs are poor amateurs when it comes to drawing up contracts and evaluating bids. So I suppose they will have to recruit managers to do this - probably those recently fired by their FPCs
dl
But when money is tight won't they just choose the cheapest service on offer which probably offers the worst treatment so patients will suffer?
I don't buy the concept that patients have much of a say in all this.
Plus most GPs are poor amateurs when it comes to drawing up contracts and evaluating bids. So I suppose they will have to recruit managers to do this - probably those recently fired by their FPCs
dl
These companies being no doubt easier for the NHS bureaucracy (ie PCTs and Department of Health) to deal with than pesky GP types.
How does this all square with these proposals is my question.
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