Please re-think list cleansing
At a time of unprecedented demand on family doctors, another bureaucratic exercise designed to reduce the level of funding to your GP practice is deeply concerning. We hope the powers that be re-think this scheme. We encourage patients to self-care, so why would we then say if you don’t have a GP consultation for 5 years you risk losing your GP registration? This will waste precious GP appointments and could disadvantage the most vulnerable patients.
This is our response to a recent announcement from NHS England that outsourcer Capita would be instructed to remove 'ghost patients' from GP surgeries.