Streeting GPs
Still a lot of talk about the Streeting GPs - newly qualified GPs funded from a new ARRS pot of money. Calc have been done and people reckon its about 0.8 WTE per PCN, which isn’t a lot.
- Also, if you have 7 practices, how do you share this person out?
- Employ them centrally and have them provide holiday /sickness cover for different practices?
- Provide backfill for GPs doing GP management work?
- Have them do a project?
- Perhaps do cross practice visits or nursing home reviews?
- Look at what targets they could work on?
- LD checks
- DM 8 care processes?
- Could they do minor surgery?
- Perhaps a cross practice coils/gynae service?
However most will be fresh from training - little other experience - need supervision and presumably don’t want to get button holed in to a niche. Will they want such a job, perhaps its not quite the panacea we hoped?
The other big worry is if they set a pay scale this could disrupt all the existing salaried GPs!