NHS: General Practitioners

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Excerpts

Wednesday 26th February 2014 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, there is no doubt that the general practitioners bit the Government of the day’s hand off, 10 years ago, and they had every reason to do so with the money that was being offered to them. However, while a feature of that contract was the quality and outcomes framework, which was a good idea in itself, it has resulted in a lot of box-ticking for GPs and it is that element which we have drastically reduced in the contract for next year. That will be helpful in freeing up GPs’ time.

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)]

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[Lord Grocott (Lab)]

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