London GPs take Save Our Surgeries campaign to Downing Street

[Northerner]

Campaigners fighting new funding arrangements for GPs' surgeries are delivering a 21,000-signature petition to Downing Street.

The group, Save Our Surgeries, says 22 practices in Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney could be forced to close, if proposed changes go ahead.

They are calling on NHS England to reverse funding cuts.

NHS England said it recognised "the unique financial challenges some GP practices were facing".

The government has decided to phase out the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) nationally, over a seven-year period and changes started taking place in April.

The MPIG was introduced in 2004, to support some GP surgeries and was used to top-up the core funding of practices.

Campaigners say practices in inner-city deprived areas will be worst hit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28673981

 

[bill hopkinson]

Campaigners fighting new funding arrangements for GPs' surgeries are delivering a 21,000-signature petition to Downing Street.
The group, Save Our Surgeries, says 22 practices in Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney could be forced to close, if proposed changes go ahead.
They are calling on NHS England to reverse funding cuts.
NHS England said it recognised "the unique financial challenges some GP practices were facing".
The government has decided to phase out the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) nationally, over a seven-year period and changes started taking place in April.
The MPIG was introduced in 2004, to support some GP surgeries and was used to top-up the core funding of practices.
Campaigners say practices in inner-city deprived areas will be worst hit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28673981

Interestingly, there is nothing on local community forums, such as https://www.streetlife.com about surgeries closing. I put in a thread to ask what local people know
It is well known that there are some one-man-and-a-dog surgeries that should have closed some time ago.

P.S. I seem to have become a Senior Member in just two months. Maybe I talk too much...