NAPC News 12 October 2010
Lansley Defends GP Commissioning Plan
The government's plans to give commissioning powers to GP consortia are ‘ambitious' but not unachievable, according to health secretary, Andrew Lansely. At a Royal College of General Practitioners conference over the weekend, Mr. Lansley said he had put in almost three years ‘to consult, dry-run and put our reforms in to practice'. Mr. Lansley told GPs that pathfinder practices would be up and running soon and doctors would have two and a half years to learn from them.
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NAPC News 11 October 2010
National Database Of NHS Records Get
Ministers are to develop a national database of NHS medical records in England, but only if people have more opportunity to opt out of the system.
The Department of Health has already written to 30 million people in England, advising them that their details would be included in the database unless they actively opted out, and the rest of the population will now be sent forms to withdraw their details from the system if they wish.
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Health Secretary Addresses GPs in Wake of Spending Review
Andrew Lansley is set to face rigorous questions from a audience of GPs - the newly-empowered purse-string holders of the NHS - the day after the Government's spending review, as the NHS struggles with how to find £20 billion efficiency savings over the next three years.
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White Paper
Consultation - NAPC Response
On the day NAPC submits its response on the White Paper consultation documents to the Department of Health, it is simultaneously issuing this press release.
NAPC enthusiastically applauds the direction of travel set out in the White Paper, which through the opportunities made available to primary care clinicians, will enable the NHS, to meet the anticipated, but unprecedented demands for its services, notwithstanding the existing financial climate.
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