This week Nick and Emma talk about list cleaning, after an analysis by Nick showed that 350,000 patients have been removed from GP practice lists, resulting in a loss of around £45m from practice funding. Nick explains why this happens and the impact it has on individual practices.
They discuss GP contracts, looking at the first area in England that has agreed a local variation to PCN contracts, BMA fears about what neighbourhood and integrated health organisation contracts could mean for general practice and whether financial pressures on the current GP contract could make GPs back an alternative model.
And they look at the impact successive governments’ obsession with GP access has had, after a report from the House of Commons public accounts committee found that practices struggle to provide the care frail, older patients need because they are overwhelmed with targets linked to improving access.
Our good news story this week is about an initiative in Greater Manchester that has helped cut hazardous prescribing.
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower and deputy editor Nick Bostock. It was produced by Czarina Deen.
Useful links
'Aggressive' list-cleaning drive strips 350,000 patients from GP practices
'We're overwhelmed' - practices swamped by scale of patient removals
GPs agree first local PCN contract variation in £10m neighbourhood deal
Hospital-led general practice 'likely' outcome of government NHS plans, warns BMA
NHS England has overloaded GPs with access targets, MPs warn
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