Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A shake-up of the way GP services are provided could be on the way in Bradford following a £100,000 trial of extended opening hours over the festive period and January weekends.
The move was possible because of extra money pumped in by NHS England, but there were also some costs for the Bradford City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which buys in the services used by GP practices.
Results of the trial suggest that many of those who attended a GP appointment during those periods would otherwise have gone to accident or emergency or sought help via the NHS 111 telephone number.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11219614.Bradford_GP_hours_trial_may_lead_to_a_shake_up/
The move was possible because of extra money pumped in by NHS England, but there were also some costs for the Bradford City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which buys in the services used by GP practices.
Results of the trial suggest that many of those who attended a GP appointment during those periods would otherwise have gone to accident or emergency or sought help via the NHS 111 telephone number.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11219614.Bradford_GP_hours_trial_may_lead_to_a_shake_up/