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The law is the law. So,Clinical Commissioning Groups have to exist. Therefore the GPs have to participate.
There are a few minor (?) matters that perhaps the public and even the members of parliament might be interested in. And Public Health England ought to answer - unless they are under ministerial gag.
1. How much of the GPs' time, previously spent in seeing patients, is now spent on activities related to CCGs?
2. Who is responsible for monitoring the time mentioned above AND ensuring that this clinical time is replaced by additional recruitment?
3. A patient may live in, say, Land's End. His next of kin or dearest friend might be living in, say, London SW11. Will the CCG in Land's End be able, without hinderance, to refer him/her to St Georges' London?
4. Some CCGs are reported to be providing services to some Teaching Hospitals several miles away from their practice areas!
Is this not a damning indictment of those teaching hospitals' management?
Has the King's Fund produced a study of the functioning of the CCGs in the areas near its London base?
I am not criticising the CCGs - some at least are served by doctors I know and respect. I merely seek information - if someone can supply it, please. Thank you.
Re: More doctors are engaged in commissioning under CCGs
The law is the law. So,Clinical Commissioning Groups have to exist. Therefore the GPs have to participate.
There are a few minor (?) matters that perhaps the public and even the members of parliament might be interested in. And Public Health England ought to answer - unless they are under ministerial gag.
1. How much of the GPs' time, previously spent in seeing patients, is now spent on activities related to CCGs?
2. Who is responsible for monitoring the time mentioned above AND ensuring that this clinical time is replaced by additional recruitment?
3. A patient may live in, say, Land's End. His next of kin or dearest friend might be living in, say, London SW11. Will the CCG in Land's End be able, without hinderance, to refer him/her to St Georges' London?
4. Some CCGs are reported to be providing services to some Teaching Hospitals several miles away from their practice areas!
Is this not a damning indictment of those teaching hospitals' management?
Has the King's Fund produced a study of the functioning of the CCGs in the areas near its London base?
I am not criticising the CCGs - some at least are served by doctors I know and respect. I merely seek information - if someone can supply it, please. Thank you.
Competing interests: No competing interests