DAUK has warned NHS England\u2019s Medium Term Planning Framework risks undermining the core strengths of general practice and could compromise patient care.\r\n\r\nThe framework includes a target for GPs to see 90 per cent of all \u2018clinically urgent\u2019 patients on the same day.\r\n\r\nDr Sarah Jacques, DAUK GP co-lead, said the plan threatened to divert focus from what GPs do best.\r\n\r\nShe said: \u201cThis is a plan that isn’t needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGP practices are not urgent care services. Who is determining what is urgent?\r\n\r\n\u201cHowever, we already manage to meet most urgent requests on the day, with 14 million people a month dealt with on the day of contact, up from 11 million, three years ago.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis approach will prevent the management of chronic conditions and moves away from the much-needed work on prevention.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is what general practice does best \u2013 providing long-term care and fostering relationships with our patients through continuity of care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIntroducing targets does not necessarily result in good quality care.\u201d\r\n\r\nDr Steve Taylor, DAUK GP Co-Lead, added that while the framework acknowledges the importance of community care, more resources are needed to effectively deliver it.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe medium term planning framework is missing some key and important components,\u201d said Dr Taylor.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe focus on community is not being funded, in particular the existing infrastructure of community care.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe focus on newer deliveries of services is not costed. For example, Pharmacy First appointments cost up to \u00a350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGP practices have not been funded.\r\n\r\n\u201cNeighbourhood services sound new but are already there and have been in place since the start of the NHS.\r\n\r\n\u201cSadly, the top-down approach is failing patient care in the community.\u201d\r\n\r\nTheir comments have featured in reports in the BMJ<\/a> and on the Doctors.Net website<\/a>.\r\n\r\nDAUK\u2019s GP committee has said it is available to work with Health Secretary Wes Streeting and the Department for Health on the issues facing general practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Taylor said: \u201cDAUK\u2019s GP committee has decades of experience and has put together workable solutions which we have shared with politicians.\u201d\r\n\r\nDAUK committee members are all volunteers and campaign about issues facing 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 has warned NHS England\u2019s Medium Term Planning Framework risks undermining the core strengths of general practice and could compromise patient care. The framework includes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59],"tags":[656,22,61,304],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","tag-dr-sarah-jacques","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-general-practice","tag-gp-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","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=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Collaboration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n