{"id":1046,"date":"2022-09-21T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-asks-for-gps-to-be-paid-per-contact-pulse-today-reports\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:17:23","slug":"dauk-asks-for-gps-to-be-paid-per-contact-pulse-today-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-asks-for-gps-to-be-paid-per-contact-pulse-today-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK asks for GPs to be paid per contact, Pulse Today reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK has written to the new health secretary Dr Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Coffey asking for GPs to be paid per contact rather than per patient, reports Pulse Today.\n\n&#8220;The DAUK demanded an \u2018overdue overhaul\u2019 of practice finance, and said: \u2018Finances need to reflect the number of contacts GPs deal with, rather than the current blanket \u2018per patient, per year fee\u2019 as per the Carr-Hill formula.\u2019\n\nGPs should be paid for administrative time as part of the standard contract too, they said, \u2018to safely deal with the mountain of documents\u2019, as is the norm for hospital doctors.\n\nThey also advised \u2018pausing all PCN activity towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/breaking-news\/england-gp-practices-to-open-9-5-on-saturdays-under-contract-update\/\">extending access<\/a>\u2019, and prioritising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/contract\/nhs-chief-rejects-jeremy-hunt-request-for-individual-gp-patient-lists\/\">continuity of care<\/a> instead.\n\nDAUK\u2019s other requests included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n \t<li>Extending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/workload\/gps-call-for-fit-note-self-certification-period-to-be-extended\/\">sickness self-certification to 28 days<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Allowing pharmacists to substitute prescribed medication if out-of-stock<\/li>\n \t<li>Adequate training for staff under the ARRS<\/li>\n \t<li>Removing revalidation in the final five years of a GPs career<\/li>\n \t<li>Removal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/politics\/labour-would-abolish-gp-pension-cap-says-shadow-health-secretary\/\">pension cap restrictions<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Investment in better quality IT<\/li>\n \t<li>New purpose-built premises<\/li>\n \t<li>Allowing practices to use extra funding as they please&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/practice-personal-finance\/pay-gps-per-contact-rather-than-per-patient-dauk-urges-government\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK has written to the new health secretary Dr Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Coffey asking for GPs to be paid per contact rather than per patient, reports Pulse&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}