CQC set to close practices that do not open at convenient times
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20003316.article#.UcAVG5ymW8A
If CQC is planning to set up its own criteria - as it appears it is - and
close down practices (and take the "responsible manager" to court), has
anyone considered the effects on the local (and national) health economy?
In particular:-
-How will neighbouring practices cope with the over-night increase in list
size by a proportion of an average sized closed practice (average list size
now >6000 patients)? This would obviously become more difficult the fewer
practices remained unclosed by CQC...
-Who will be responsible for clearing up the mess? Patients have a right to
be registered with a practice: what happens when there are none left - or so
few that they cannot perform to the "standards" set by CQC - let alone the
GMC - and so will have to be closed by CQC in their turn?
- What happens to practice finances - already squeezed - if the list size is
suddenly massively increased?
- How many practices have the sheer physical space to manage a larger list
size?
- What will the impact be on recruitment both to practices and to general
practice as a whole?
And probably, how will anyone within the practice be persuaded that they
should be named as the individual liable for any failure in the practice in
the eyes of CQC? Sounds like an excellent reason to resign on the spot to
me!
Is anyone in charge of the whole of this lunatic asylum known as the new
NHS?
Mary Hawking
Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4
blog http://maryhawking.wordpress.com/ , bloglist
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4529244/MH%20blog%20list.doc And Fred!
http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/who-knows-what-and-why/
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