GPC negotiators say the DoH has acknowledged that the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body’s recommendation to cut correction factors is illegal, so is now consulting on how to implement it legally.
The move means that the 2.7 per cent global sum uplift proposed by the DDRB will be absorbed by an equivalent cut to correction factors for the 90 per cent of practices which rely on MPIG.
In October practices without an MPIG will receive a lump sum equivalent to a 2.7 per cent uplift in their global sum backdated to April.
The result of the DoH consultation is expected to be a formality.
tom.ireland@haymarket.com
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Comments
stephen jones
25/07/2008
What an absolute farce
What a way to treat the people who hold the fabric of the NHS together
I'm feeling like becoming militant over this
Let's just hope and pray our negotiators do aswell or do we just expect them to roll over and accept yet another "bad deal"?
How much more of this are we prepared to tolerate???
lynn jones
25/07/2008
What about PMS Practices?
Lynn Jones
Tom Ireland
25/07/2008
PMS practices do not use MPIG so your funding will be negotiated locally and unaffected by these changes.
Some LMCs are claiming that PMS practices are entitled to recieve whatever the global sum rises by -2.7 per cent this year -but this is dependent on which type of PMS contract you use.
lynn jones
25/07/2008
Thanks for your response. That must mean we also get nothing for the 3rd year in a row too.
Lynn
Niall Finegan
26/07/2008
Junior doctors are demoralised, consultants too, and now all GPs.
Time for a General election !
Alick Munro
26/07/2008
I can hardly credit that the GPC agreed to have the MPIG reduced for the 90% of practices that rely on it.
If not the deduction is not contractual. A legal challenge seems appropriate.
We have all had enough of this shabby treatment. If the BMA won't collect undated resignations from practices, will somebody else please.
Laurence Slavin
29/07/2008
When the MPIG was introduced, the DoH FAQs on the MPIG stated "there is a permanent committment to the principle of this guarantee." Presumably permament in DoH speak means four years? Three points here:
1. No pay rise for three years is a pay cut that has already been made. GPs profits are falling by 7-10% per annum
2. The Darzi suggestion is that the fact the MPIG is not list sensitive and is therefore an obstacle to patient choice is a smokescreen. If it's a problem, make it list sensitive. I suspect most GPs would accept this.
3. You can't negotiate with a bully. Athelred the Unready tried with Danegeld and Chamberlaine with paper promises.
Laurence Slavin
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