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Panicking PM threatens to cut GPs' wages
After her claim that there was no problem in the NHS didn't wash, she now seems to say there is a problem but reckons it's the fault of GPs.
Now, as far as I'm aware, we have a shortage of GPs because doctors don't want to do it. I'm not sure how this threat from May will make things better.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-seven-day-week-gp-surgeries-jeremy-hunt-nhs-hospitals-accident-and-emergency-a7526951.html
Now, as far as I'm aware, we have a shortage of GPs because doctors don't want to do it. I'm not sure how this threat from May will make things better.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-seven-day-week-gp-surgeries-jeremy-hunt-nhs-hospitals-accident-and-emergency-a7526951.html
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G.P.s do not get wages.
As part of the Urgent Prescription for general practice, GPC asked for fair and sustainable funding and resources to reach a minimum of 11% of NHS spend.
The GP Forward View has gone some way in addressing this ask through the announced increase in the level of investment in primary care, and specifically to general practice.
Investment to general practice services will rise by a recurrent £2.4bn by 2020/21, which will increase the proportion of investment going into general practice to over 10% of the NHS England budget.
NHS England have indicated the funds will be distributed equally up to 2020/21. GPC will be challenging this modelling as it seeks to secure front-loading of the funding to better deal with the current crisis in general practice.
G.P.s receive a funding stream and have contractual obligations in order to receive funding. You can read more about it here.
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice/employment/contracts/general-practice-funding/funding-and-support-for-general-practice
From the new TV series about a NHS hospital the main issue appears to be a shortage or bed blocking caused by not being able to move or discharge patients.
A&E may well be seeing more patients who just have a cold but those patients aren't going to be admitted to hospital and take up a bed.
Is the problem a lack of GPs rather than the number of hours worked?
That seems a little odd.
The labour approach (to everything) appears to be to throw more tax payers money at it.
I wonder who has the sensible, workable solution.
Most seem to work part time.
My surgery half the docs only do at most 3 days a week
Back in the day you used to get home visits and weekend openings
Labour I would suggest, seeing as they appeared to have emergency treatment under some control in comparison to the burgeoning disaster we see unfolding in front of us.
GPs worked the same hours then as they do now so it must be entirely false to lack the blame at their feet.
The problem with the Tories is they refuse to acknowledge their incompatance and will point fingers a everyone else. They will never look at themselves in the mirror.
So you've no answer then.
Exactly, the funding stream to General Practices has contractual obligations.
Perhaps you should do a bit more looking?
In 2004 Labour introduced the existing General Practice scheme.
GPs were so stunned by the terms offered to them when negotiating their new contract that they thought it was a "bit of a laugh", a doctor has said.
Dr Simon Fradd, who was one of British Medical Association's GP negotiators, said they were shocked by the approach taken by the government.
They could not believe it when GPs were given the chance not to do evening and weekend work for a 6% pay cut, he said.
Since the deal started in 2004, average GP pay has topped the £100,000 barrier.
While doctors now make less in basic pay - about £55,000 on average - they have been able to top-up their earnings by hitting targets under a performance-related bonus scheme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6314301.stm
Well, that's quite obvious. Under Labour, the greater investment resulted in a better service overall. We used to prepare for winter and open extra beds and sometimes whole wards. I work as a senior NHS nurse with previous bed management experience.
Now, we seem to be closing wards. We've closed several A&Es under this government, many in London, with more planned to close in the next few years - is it any wonder that the remaining A&Es are so much busier?
Most GPs work long hours. The government seem to love to put out this idea of every GP owing their own practice. The reality is far from that.
The Tory party has always been an uncaring party, but they are truly exceeding themselves right now.
Of course the NHS needs more funding. There is a serious lack of it in primary health care. There are NHS workers leaving in droves.
To endorse the Tory party's approach to health only goes to mirror their lack of empathy.
Many GPs work part time because these are often female GPs with children, or older GPs near retirement age. They work part time so get paid for their part time hours. We either accept that many GPs will be part time or we have even fewer GPs in practice. It's not an attractive job despite the relatively high salary.
Money is not such an incentive when the pressure of work is so great.
Why would you want the party who laid the foundation of this mess to have anything to do with it now.
Of course your happy not to use my tax paid health care, for yourself or loved ones when in need? Just don't be telling any insurance that covers your well-being, you'll be in for a nasty shock.
Maybe Pakistan is good place to live for Low Tax brigade and dodgers, many places their have little or no functional state, so state contributions are low, you can hire all sorts to have your very own state, it's amazing why more don't do it..;-)
Because they're better than the Tories with the NHS. There is absolutely no question about that. I have worked in the NHS since the 1980s, under Tory and Labour governments. The NHS was better funded under Labour and there were better contingency winter plans, with provisions made for extra beds and staffing.
Trying to be more ''efficient'' and do more work with less resources is frankly not possible and results in poor, undignified standards of care.
Utter nonsensical lying, PFI was very much a Conservative Government Policy introduction in 1992. That is fact.
Thanks for looking on my behalf.
It would appear then that performance related bonuses are not working - it is May after all who's laid the blame for the humanitarian crisis at the feet of GPs.
Under Labour, it obviously wasn't such an issue - as you can see from this lovely graph
http://www.qualitywatch.org.uk/indicator/ae-waiting-times#
Our GPs tried this years ago...when Hunt was still an itch in his father's pants and when GPs were coming on stream faster than they were quitting and dying off...and they stopped it because the take up of appointments on Saturday morning and after 7pm was so poor.
Indeed, the senior partner (who is as much a friend as a doctor these days) actually told me they had people who initially absolutely needed "to see a doctor" and couldn't possibly "take any time off work" to come during regular hours, suddenly concluded maybe their need wasn't so urgent when offered appointments that "clashed with Eastenders on the telly" or interfered with "always going to Tesco Saturday morning".
And those were just two of the reasons why people turned down appointments that they recorded at the time.
As to time wasters at A & E...charge them for "wasting NHS time" like the cops can ;-)
Nothing but recruiting more GPs will cure this.