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Exile on Spencer St · 20-07-2016, 17:56

Surely the problem that needs addressing is not the healthy people who don't go to their GPs in five years or more, nor the people who've moved, died or otherwise disappeared.
The problem is that GP's (private businesses contracted to, not part of, the NHS) get £136 per name on a list that's obviously not kept up-to-date by GPs (and why would it?).
Why not simply pay these private medical practitioners for every consultation they undertake? Every visit to a GP requires an appointment, that's recorded somewhere, so how difficult is it to count up the appointments and pay an agreed sum for each? Keep the GP registers based on a rough target of a certain number of patients per doctor, so patients have some certainty of getting an appointment. But there needs to be some incentive for GPs to keep 'their' lists of patients up-to-date.

20-07-2016, 17:56	#17
Exile on Spencer St God Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Hogshire Posts: 5,446 Liked: 5559 times Rep Power: 333683	Re: If you have not seen your GP for five years.... Surely the problem that needs addressing is not the healthy people who don't go to their GPs in five years or more, nor the people who've moved, died or otherwise disappeared. The problem is that GP's (private businesses contracted to, not part of, the NHS) get £136 per name on a list that's obviously not kept up-to-date by GPs (and why would it?). Why not simply pay these private medical practitioners for every consultation they undertake? Every visit to a GP requires an appointment, that's recorded somewhere, so how difficult is it to count up the appointments and pay an agreed sum for each? Keep the GP registers based on a rough target of a certain number of patients per doctor, so patients have some certainty of getting an appointment. But there needs to be some incentive for GPs to keep 'their' lists of patients up-to-date.