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GPs are being offered a ?30 ?administration fee' for cancelling outpatient follow-up appointments and doing the work themselves, in the latest scheme by clinical commissioning groups to tackle hospital waiting lists.
The scheme encourages GPs to go through outpatient letters and ask patients if they would prefer to be seen in the practice rather than in hospital. But, controversially, the ?30 payment is only given once the follow-up appointment is cancelled.
GP commissioning leaders have welcomed the scheme as an exemplar for the whole country to avoid ?unnecessary' hospital outpatient appointments and reduce costs. But the GPC said it created the potential for ?perverse incentives' and reduced trust in the profession.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...30-to-cancel-hospital-follow-ups-for-patients
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The scheme encourages GPs to go through outpatient letters and ask patients if they would prefer to be seen in the practice rather than in hospital. But, controversially, the ?30 payment is only given once the follow-up appointment is cancelled.
GP commissioning leaders have welcomed the scheme as an exemplar for the whole country to avoid ?unnecessary' hospital outpatient appointments and reduce costs. But the GPC said it created the potential for ?perverse incentives' and reduced trust in the profession.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...30-to-cancel-hospital-follow-ups-for-patients
(free registration required)