GP practices face financial melt-down
As last week’s ‘Pulse’ reveals ‘GP partners in some areas are in such financial difficulty that they have been unable to pay themselves for several months’.GPC deputy chair, Dr Richard Vautrey, is quoted as saying: ‘We are concerned by the increasing reports of practices and GPs in financial problems caused through no fault of their own. Our fear is that this is only going to get worse as NHS England pushes ahead with cuts to essential correction factor payments and slashes PMS funding …’.
Clearly, practices are looking at ways to save money: cutting staff, cutting clinics, stripping out non-essential expenditure.
