In message <[log in to unmask]>, Adrian Midgley
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>[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 18:25 on 18/10/98
>about
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>>>>Can a private GP refer a patient for NHS hospital care?
>>
>>When everyone is in a PCG, whose budget pays?
>>Mary
>
>Well, the budget is for providing all care to all the people
>registered with one of the (currently) practices in the PCG.
Sorry, it's for all patients in the PCG area - whether or not they are
registered.
>
>So if one ofthose people is being treated, the costs come from that
>budget.
Hope we never get to practice based budgets then..
>
>If the "treatment" is not good medicine then this would be a matter
>for clinical governance, and the CG team are from the PCG for
>primary care, and presumably from the local DGH for secondary care.
>Thought: how about CG in private hospitals? Like that Gynae chap
>in the South East, who only got shpped when one of his mistakes had
>to be patched up in the local DGH - William Harvey was it?
How does CG apply to private practice?
What sanctions does (or should) a PCG have against private practitioners
in its area?
No possibility of using the distribution of GMS there!
Mary
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