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Darzi review: MPIG to be scrapped to enable patient choice
30-Jun-08
The MPIG is to be scrapped, because it is holding back patient choice, the government has said.
The Darzi review, published this afternoon, commits the NHS to allowing patients to choose their GP.
But MPIG ‘mitigates against people exercising that choice, and is a barrier to tackling health inequalities’, health secretary Alan Johnson said. ‘That needs to be tackled.’
The review says the government will work with ‘GP representatives to manage the phase out’ of MPIG.
This will create a fairer funding system that rewards the best GPs, it says.
The Darzi review also commits the NHS to publishing more information about the quality of GP practices so that patients can make informed choices.
And it promises an ‘independent and transparent process’ for developing the quality framework.
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Lindy Williams
01/07/2008
In the absence of MPIG what will become of rural surgeries? Here the number of patients is limited but distances to the nearest urban or semi-urban centre can be too far for comfort as far as healthcare is concerned. Will there be special measures taken to prevent our rural services disappearing?
Where this tired old mantra 'patient choice' is concerned, there is a limited number of GPs and when someone is really ill they will simply not be able to choose who they see. The review is a complete sham as far as primary care is concerned and shows how the government has not even begun to address the fundamental issue that maintains the inequality in healthcare: poverty. Until the system is designed properly to ameliorate the huge discrepancies is income and all that goes with them, no reviews of health, education or anything else will make a scrap of difference.
malcolm brown
01/07/2008
Would someone please try to explain how taking yet more resource out of Primary Care will improve anything.This is a complete non-sequitur which even politicians should have the intelligence to understand. Evidently not.
Pauline Green
02/07/2008
If Alan Johnson thinks it is a good idea to ask GP's to do better, work longer hours, provide extra services etc, but on the other hand then expect them to agree to be paid less to do it, what side of Mars did he come from. I am a practice secretary and have to put up with it, but how can you really realistically expect qualified, experienced quality GP's to put up with it?
patrick geraghty
03/07/2008
If the MPIG goes then 90%+ practices will lose out - clinical and non-clinical staff will have to be let go and this will improve patient care how ? Please bring on the next election because even 'The Raving Looney Party' must be better than this lot.
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