{"id":3029,"date":"2026-05-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:26:28","slug":"in-the-media-gp-committee-on-local-network-des-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/in-the-media-gp-committee-on-local-network-des-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"In the media: GP committee on local network DES changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plans allowing integrated care boards (ICBs) to request local variations to the network contract DES could bring opportunities and risks for general practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s the view of DAUK\u2019s GP committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It follows a report in GP Online that NHS England has confirmed the DES specification &#8216;has been updated to enable ICBs to request local variations&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK GP co-lead Dr Steve Taylor told GP Online it could be an \u2018amazing\u2019 opportunity in areas where general practice and their ICB had a strong relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>General practice<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he cautioned that \u2018restrictive practices that make things harder for general practice\u2019 could follow in some areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Taylor said: \u201cA potential good outcome would be that an ICB could say it needs to fit a service better with a certain locality and decide to increase funding to support that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe flip side is they could decide that although the national DES specifies a certain level of funding for something, the ICB feels it can\u2019t afford that so they restrict funding, or try to make practices do more to obtain it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gponline.com\/icbs-vary-network-des-locally-major-shift-pcns\/article\/1956756\">Read the article in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a non-profit campaigning and lobbying organisation led by frontline doctors, for frontline doctors. We are volunteers and our collective aim is to give frontline workers a voice to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please support our work by contributing to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our crowd funder<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans allowing integrated care boards (ICBs) to request local variations to the network contract DES could bring opportunities and risks for general practice. That\u2019s the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,59],"tags":[24,22,61],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-in-the-media","category-general-practice","tag-dauk-in-the-media","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-general-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}