GPs in England will be able to claim £20 for every time patient is not sent to hospital | NHS
GPS in England 20 pounds will be paid every time they decide not to send a patient to the hospital under a government plan to help reduce the NHS waiting menu.
Family doctors will be able to claim money if they instead refer patients for tests and treatment in an environment outside the hospital, such as a healthy clinic, or to see a community specialist.
The ministers say that an estimated 2 million patients annually can obtain earwax, tinnitus and IBS, on faster care due to the initiative.
It can also help women with menopause in avoiding joining a 580,000 waiting menu already for excessive load care NHS Gynecology services.
NHS England has allocated 80 million pounds to finance the expansion of the current “advice and guidance” scheme to cover all England from this month onwards.
The ministers hope that this will help reduce the size of the waiting list for the planned hospital – according to which 64 million patients are waiting for 7.4 million dates, tests or operations – by transferring many of those who usually join this list to get their care elsewhere.
Over time, this should help reduce the size of the “referral to the treatment” address for the hospital’s care by increasing the number of patients treated elsewhere, as they will not be added to the total waiting list.
If family doctors start communicating repeatedly with hospital consultants about the model that care should take, then the government should also help to fulfill one of the “three large transformations” in the field of health care that it promised – transferring a lot of care from hospitals to societal places.
from now on GPS He will be able to demand that 20 pounds to pay their surgery if, for example, after initial consultation and then talking to the hospital doctor, they refer someone with a dietitian in society instead of the local hospital to conduct investigation and treatment.
Currently, approximately 400,000 people are waiting for 7.4 million in the waiting list that the hospital specialist will see because they have a problem with the digestive system.
Karen Smith, Minister of Reform NHS in a section health “By caring for patients closer to the home, we save time and stop the masses of people who have to go to the hospital for unnecessary dates in the first place,” said social care.
“We re -connect NHS until we do things differently, greaterly and offer better results for patients. The plan is an ideal example of how to save time for patients and reduce pressure on the main NHS services in this process.”
Women who are going through menopause will also be able to obtain advice on the best form of alternative hormone therapy in a community facility, as well as those who suffer from ear, nose and throat conditions – such as earwax and ear infections – who make up 30 % of all referrals to the hospital.
The British Medical Association, the Union of Doctors, negotiated a deal worth 20 pounds, with the ministers. She said that the plan would better reward GPS to take more responsibility for the health of their patients.
After years of lack of investment in public practice, “This is an important small step in recognizing the important role in GP and practices supporting to provide care for patients in society,” said Dr. Katie Pramal Steiner, head of the BMA GPS committee in England.
However, Becce Baird, an older colleague in the King’s Fund Thinktank, said that the approach could have some “unintended consequences” that affect patients and GPS.
“The unintended consequences of advice and guidance include potential delays in referring to patients and increasing the administrative burden of both public and secondary practice [hospital] “Care”.
She added that he may prolong the time it is taken by a patient who needs to care for the hospital recently, if he was first transferred to another service.
“For some, there is a possibility [that] It is just adding an additional step to the process and thus delaying their treatment in secondary care. “
