Not so fast Ahmad :-)
What exactly have the GMSC achieved?
They have received an assurance that GPs' income will not be threatened by
the unified PCG budget. Then of course there's ....... er ....... well .....
we will get paid for sitting on the PCG board ....... if we have the time or
inclination.
Independent Contractor status unchanged (For how long?)
Red Book ISQ - Whooooppeeee!
What has HMG achieved? Probably everything it expected to!
The rationing role is placed squarely on the shoulders of the PCG who BTW
must have a majority of GPs on board. If the Group cuts any Nursing or
Social services then the GPs will also take the flack for that, no?
HMG's committment to the Review Body is reaffirmed - Surprise, surprise -
bloody good system if you ask them :-( Listens to evidence then completely
ignores advice and does its own thing ...... in stages!
IMVHO the GMSC has achieved zilch except putting the brake on terms which
would never have been acceptable to GPs as a whole anyway. Meanwhile the
wider issues have now been recommended to the LMC conference as a way
forward. The deal was surely set to be thrown out in a national ballot
anyway and apart from our incomes probably not being cut by nurses, social
workers, lay people and, I daresay colleagues, has anything else really
changed?
The rationing, the imposition, the enforced unwieldy partnerships - they're
all still there :-(((
If we all meekly accept these matters then we will be rightly accused of
once more just "feeling for our wallets", i.e. take away the threat to our
income, pay us a bit for managing the PCGs and we're all in! Pathetic :-(
Let's fight on!
Dr Peter Wilson
GP, Broadstairs, Kent.
Medical Manager - EKDOC
>The GMSC has sent me today the details of the deal struck with Milburn
>and copies of letters exchanged between them.
>
>The deal is a material and substantial improvement on what was proposed
>before, that which was going to be accepted without a whimper.
>
>The deal paves the way towards building decent safeguards for those
>family doctors who will be members of PCGs. In that respect, Chisholm
>et al have done well. I am anxious, however, that the deal must be
>enshrined in the Statute.
>
>None of this would have happened without the courage and sturdy resolve
>of many doctors who stood up to bullying and made their voices heard.
>
>The dramatic changes to the White Paper make it very difficult to
>achieve the critical mass needed to stop it. But these changes also
>make it a very different WP!
>
>I still believe that PCGs as a concept are bad for patients and doctors
>and that they are the thin edge of a very dangerous wedge.
>
>I shall remain in opposition to PCGs because a) they are ideologically
>unsound, and, b) they are being imposed on me.
>
>To that end, I shall stay outside and independent of the PCG forming
>in my area.
>
>Ahmad
>
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