DAUK\u2019s GP committee has warned that millions of face-to-face appointments could be lost if the Government presses ahead with plans for a new online booking system.\r\n\r\nFrom Wednesday 1 October, patients will be able to make unlimited non-urgent consultation requests, medication queries, and admin enquiries online from 8am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday.\r\n\r\nAt the moment, practices can turn the online requests off.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor said the proposals could overwhelm practises, forcing cuts to in-person care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to GP Online, Dr Taylor said: \u201cThere is limited capacity of appointments and time, so with the increase in access requests this will have an effect on other parts of patient services.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis will include fewer face-to-face appointments, possibly waiting lists and fewer pre-booked appointments being offered.\u201d\r\n\r\nDr Taylor warned the policy could harm rather than improve patient care without investment in GP recruitment.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere are available GPs who are unemployed or underemployed,\u201d he said.\r\n\r\nDAUK\u2019s GP Committee has backed the BMA<\/a> and the vote by GPs in England to enter into dispute with the Government over the changes.\r\n\r\nRead the article in full on GP Online<\/a>.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, members DAUK\u2019s GP committee took to social media to counter comments by the Health Secretary Wes Streeting it was \u2018absurd\u2019 many patients can\u2019t request appointments online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Streeting said it was easier to get a hair appointment than a GP appointment.\r\n\r\nDr Sarah Jacques, DAUK\u2019s GP co-lead, commented on X, formerly known as Twitter<\/a>,\r\n\r\nShe said it was \u2018strange\u2019 to compare general practice to hairdressing.\r\n\r\n\u201cI have to book a hairdresser 8 wks in advance,\u201d she said. \u201cThere’s no squeezing me in for an emergency roots touch up if I need to look good for that pop-up family event when you know your mother-in-law is going to make some snide remark about your appearance!\u201d\r\n\r\nAlso posting on X<\/a>, Dr Taylor said: \u201cThere are 102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons. 27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries. 31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts\r\n\r\n\u201cYou can see the problem @wesstreeting<\/a>.\u201d\r\n\r\nDAUK committee members are all volunteers and campaign on issues facing frontline doctors in their own time. Please support our work by joining DAUK<\/a> or donating to our GoFundMe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DAUK\u2019s GP committee has warned that millions of face-to-face appointments could be lost if the Government presses ahead with plans for a new online booking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[389,557,23],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","tag-bma","tag-dauk-gp","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hair appointment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n