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GPs who fail to fill extended-hours surgeries are to have their pay docked by NHS managers, after a series of PCT audits found many patients are shunning evening and weekend appointments.
A Pulse investigation reveals PCTs across England are writing ?utilisation' clauses into extended hours LESs, to withhold payments from practices if they fail to fill surgeries above a certain threshold.
The controversial move has been opposed by LMCs and described as ?wholly inappropriate' by the GPC, which said it was unacceptable for trusts to be offering LESs at worse terms than the national DES ? which does not have any utilisation requirements.
At least three trusts have so far rewritten LES agreements to require practices to meet certain utilisation targets, while a series of others have ramped up their scrutiny of GP performance.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...-face-pay-cut-as-patients-shun-extended-hours
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A Pulse investigation reveals PCTs across England are writing ?utilisation' clauses into extended hours LESs, to withhold payments from practices if they fail to fill surgeries above a certain threshold.
The controversial move has been opposed by LMCs and described as ?wholly inappropriate' by the GPC, which said it was unacceptable for trusts to be offering LESs at worse terms than the national DES ? which does not have any utilisation requirements.
At least three trusts have so far rewritten LES agreements to require practices to meet certain utilisation targets, while a series of others have ramped up their scrutiny of GP performance.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...-face-pay-cut-as-patients-shun-extended-hours
(free registration required)