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GPs will be benchmarked on the laboratory tests they order under Government plans to cut the cost of pathology services by 20% over three years, Pulse can reveal.
Ministers aim to arm CCGs with information on variation in requests from GPs and their adherence to NICE guidelines, after audits showed request rates differed by up to 100-fold between practices. But GP leaders warned the move could add to the ?big black cloud' of performance management from CCGs, as they scrabble to find savings under QIPP.
Dr Ian Barnes, national clinical director of pathology, told a meeting of pathologists earlier this year a ?major culture shift' was required in use of lab services, and that the Department of Health was determined to implement cost-cutting recommendations from the 2006 Carter review.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...ist/13913494/gps-to-be-ranked-on-lab-test-use
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Ministers aim to arm CCGs with information on variation in requests from GPs and their adherence to NICE guidelines, after audits showed request rates differed by up to 100-fold between practices. But GP leaders warned the move could add to the ?big black cloud' of performance management from CCGs, as they scrabble to find savings under QIPP.
Dr Ian Barnes, national clinical director of pathology, told a meeting of pathologists earlier this year a ?major culture shift' was required in use of lab services, and that the Department of Health was determined to implement cost-cutting recommendations from the 2006 Carter review.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...ist/13913494/gps-to-be-ranked-on-lab-test-use
(free registration required)