The GP contract

Effect of the new GP contract on child health clinics.

Margaret McCartney: Scottish GP contract-responsibility without power?

The proposed Scottish GP contract is clearly intended to shore up GPs and support primary care, and there’s much in it to like. It effectively underwrites premises so that younger GPs won’t be dissuaded from joining a practice that owns its buildings. It includes a minimum income expectation for 40 hour full time GP equivalents, some 20% of whom in Scotland earn less than the proposed minimum o...

Changes to the GP contract threaten general practice in the UK.

Last week, the UK government disregarded five months of painstaking negotiations between the BMA andNHS employers to announce a series of wide ranging changes to the general practitioner contract that could potentially damage general practice in the United Kingdom. Some of the changes had never been mentioned before. Extensive and detailed discussions, which had almost led to agreement on a pot...

Have the New GP Contract and NICE guidelines improved the clinical care of people with epilepsy?

PURPOSE This retrospective audit was to assess the effect of the New General Practitioner (GP) Contract and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines on the care and management of people with epilepsy (PWE) during the period of observation from April 2004 to April 2009. METHOD The case notes of 540 people on anti-epilepsy drugs (AEDs) aged 16 years were reviewed in 1...

Changing pattern of referral to a diabetes clinic following implementation of the new UK GP contract.

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the new GMS contract on referral patterns to a secondary care diabetes clinic. All new patient referrals received from primary care to a hospital diabetes service were surveyed. No significant change in referrals was seen 6 months after implementation of the GMS contract. There was, however, an increase in referrals for poor glycae...