General Practice update Jan 2023

Contact us and share your opinionoin Andy and Gandhi for the latest in General Practice and what is going on....00:00 General Practice update Jan 202301:07 Charging for GP Appointments!Sajid Javid’s call to charge for GP and A&E visits is ‘zombie idea’ threatening ‘principle of NHS’, say medicshttps://inews.co.uk/news/health/sajid... Former Health SecretaryMeans tested fees protecting those on low incomesMr Javid, who will not stand at the next election, argued that “the 75-year-old model of the NHS is unsustainable” and pointed to Ireland’s “nominal 75 euro fee” for going to an injury unit without a referral and £20 fees for GP appointments in Norway and Sweden as possible models.ThoughtsNot about the money but demand managementDelay presentations? More cost further down the roadWorsen health outcomes for the poorestPeople already pay via NI/taxSlippery slopeExpensive and fiddly to implementJust invest in the NHSDuring his campaign for the Tory leadership, Rishi Sunak set out plans to fine patients who miss GP and hospital appointments £10.Wes streeting and labour against…Welsh GP leaders propose new Australia-style GP contracthttps://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/wal... 12:25 Should General Practice go Australian?The Welsh LMC conference will vote on a motion proposing that Wales moves to an item-of-service fee GP contract similar to that used in Australia.One motion says that the ‘conference despairs at the thought of continuing to flog the dead horse that is our capitation-based GMS contract, and we rejuvenate our call for GPC Wales to negotiate an activity-based model’.‘conference urges GPC Wales to negotiate an IOS fee-based unified GMS contract similar to that in place in Australia’.Charge for GP & A&E in AustraliaAttract staff20:32 Name and shame of GP practices on acccessMail Online names and shame GP practices with face-to-face appointment toolhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar... GPs doing the fewest face-to-face appointments are 'named and shamed': Just 12 PER CENT are done in-person at worst-performing surgeries... so how does YOUR practice fare? Use our search tool to find outFollows our prediction of easy journalismLive data means this isn’t jJoin Dr Mike as he shares how to get started and fly using EMIS to make your life easier with this clinical systembit.ly/EMIScourse