Is it the end of GP Appraisal?
Apparently we need cuts to NHS England and ICBs. Not just personnel but budgets too. GP Appraisals would be high on my list to chop. Originally brought in post Shipman to “catch” bad GPs - has it ever delivered on that? Watered down repeatedly to a nice chat. Its not internal to an organisation - it has almost no performance data in it - basically its a chat about, how it’s going, what training you have done to keep up to date and what your next years plan is (almost impossible to state given how quickly the NHS changes).
Now I’m not saying some people don’t enjoy it. You get a session out of surgery. Appraisers get reasonably well paid and no doubt some individuals find value in it, but there are alternatives - many training hubs have mentoring and coaching schemes that would give better advice. You can replace almost all of it with a website - upload your training certificates and press a few buttons on are you healthy and attest you are legal. Or make it a requirement that practices do internal appraisals? CQC (who might also be for the chop) spend an inordinate amount of time checking everyone’s been on their training and all policies and procedures are in place - why do you need an appraisal with an outsider who has not access to any of that as well?
Please defend appraisals, but as stated if it was me - they’d be gone - a few million saved - tick!