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Exclusive: An NHS England local area team has pulled funding from an occupational health service for stressed and burnt out GPs despite NHS England promising to continue paying for PCT legacy services while it conducts a national review, Pulse can reveal.
GPs in Cleveland are now being refused funding for occupational health support unless their performance is under formal review, in contrast to the previous policy under the PCT. Providing support only to GPs whose performance has triggered a formal review comes ?too late? to help many suffering from mental exhaustion and stress, GP leaders have warned.
NHS England told Pulse in July that it had written in May to its local area teams instructing them to ?refrain from creating interim policies and retain the historic PCT position? pending the results of a nationwide review into occupational health funding due this month.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/ba...retain-services/20005256.article#.UqWqMfRdWAg
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GPs in Cleveland are now being refused funding for occupational health support unless their performance is under formal review, in contrast to the previous policy under the PCT. Providing support only to GPs whose performance has triggered a formal review comes ?too late? to help many suffering from mental exhaustion and stress, GP leaders have warned.
NHS England told Pulse in July that it had written in May to its local area teams instructing them to ?refrain from creating interim policies and retain the historic PCT position? pending the results of a nationwide review into occupational health funding due this month.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/ba...retain-services/20005256.article#.UqWqMfRdWAg
(free registration required)
