GPs to be paid ?30 per patient to lighten consultant case-loads

[Northerner]

Exclusive GPs will be paid ?30 per patient to go through hospital lists and identify those that could be discharged and managed in primary care, in a radical CCG plan to cut the case-load of consultants and save cash.

In a QIPP initiative hoped to ease the pressure on hospitals and generate savings for the NHS, participating GPs will receive a one-off fee of ?30 per patient from for carrying out a review of all patients being managed by the diabetes and respiratory medicine teams and seeing if they could be discharged.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commiss...tant-case-loads/20003909.article#.Ugjbg5K2aSo

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[trophywench]

Hadn't better discharge moi - else I shall have a tantrum !

 

[Redkite]

This is already happening in our area with adult services. I would not be happy! What do GPs know about type 1 diabetes? It's a specialism!

 

[Northerner]

This is already happening in our area with adult services. I would not be happy! What do GPs know about type 1 diabetes? It's a specialism!

Those were my initial thoughts also.

 

[trophywench]

Well it may be all very well till you have a problem, then they don't have any clue what to do and would have to refer you, which takes time - when your problem is NOW and you haven't got a DSN who knows all about you, like you should have now.

And it costs them to refer you so they wouldn't want you. The whole thing is unmanageable.

 

[Lauras87]

Please tell me this is a joke?

What's happened to it being the patient's choice or quality of life??