Certainly for the NHS part of general practice, and in fact probably
to a large extent for the bells and whistles part of income, the
main determinant of an individual GP's income is the amount of money
the HA pays into the practice in all forms. Staff reimbursment and
improvement grants have been obvious elements of this, and recently
of course prescribing budgets and indicative prescribing amounts
have joined this.
Does each HA have a transparent, and demonstrably fair way of
allocating funding? And if they mention quality, do they have a
transparent and documented way of measuring this?
If not, can they defend themselves against charges before the health
ombudsman or in Court that they have behaved unfairly?
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