Posts Tagged GPs
Lansley’s plans could set the NHS back by up to 3 years
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 10/07/2010
Moves to transfer commissioning responsibility to GPs could cost the NHS its £20 billion efficiency savings target, and worse
The coalition government’s White Paper on the NHS is due to be published next week. It is widely expected to outline plans to hand control of as much as £80 billion of resources in the NHS from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to consortia of GPs.
Analysis released today by Civitas suggests such moves are likely to:
- Lead to at least a one year dip in performance in the NHS in absolute terms.
- Set the NHS back at least three years relative to what could be achieved without any structural change.
Read the full report and press release, here and here. For ideas for what the government should be doing, return to the blog tomorrow. Also, have a listen to R4 World Tonight (10 mins 55 secs in).
George Monbiot almost says something sensible
Posted by Nick Cowen in Health on 12/03/2008
But not quite. His latest article on Comment is Free is headlined ‘Making GPs more accessible is just a disguised concession to big business’. Although his ideology is almost unparalleled in its economic illiteracy, it looks on the face as if he might have happened upon something important. He starts off well, pointing out that the government’s move to force GPs to open out-of-hours, lacks the significant public backing that is claimed, with evidence cooked up by a cabinet office report and a CBI poll.