Re: GP prescribing incentive schemes face axe

[Guest guest]

Sheila what do you deduce from all this. Would this mean no more willy nilly

prescribing of pills, and many do get wasted, for conditions that we do not

have.

Does it also mean that instead of handing out drugs that Doctors will have to

diagnose correctley, with proper tests and referrals.

If patients are not going to get the care they need I can well see

demonstrations outside the GP surgeries as they did predict that this sort of

thing would happen.

I have to look back at tha many useless drugs that I have had that have in fact

caused me more problems, and all I received was that I could have no further

help if I did not take them, and struck off twice and I am now facing problems

on this line with my present GP.

How many others have been prescribed drugs that have done no good, and in some

cases more harm, and a waste to the NHS, and at the end of the day is it any

good having a GP who cannot diagnose and treat hs patient correctley.

If I get struck off again I will not be signing back on with another GP,as it

simply is not worth it.

Kathleen

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> GP prescribing incentive schemes face axe

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> 28 Mar 11

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> By Lilian Anekwe

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> Exclusive: NHS managers have sounded the death knell of prescribing

> incentive schemes, with two-thirds of PCTs ready to scrap the schemes in

> response to changes to the new GP contract, Pulse can reveal.

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> Our investigation shows two-thirds of PCTs are set to bin their prescribing

> incentive schemes and the financial incentives offered, resulting in a

> massive loss of income for GP practices.

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[Guest guest]

Hi Sheila,

Not sure what 'prescribing incentive schemes' are - if this is the scheme from years ago where drugs companies pushed their goods onto Drs with the promise of leather briefcases or a holiday in the sun - or is it a newer scheme where the government actually pays them to prescribe a drug in preference to another.

Would be interested to know what scams the medical profession are up to now.

As an aside - I saw a programme some years ago regarding the birth of the NHS - do you know why Drs are still allowed to conduct private practice - because they were all private when the government of the day was trying to ask them to come on board in the NHS and be paid a salary - they said it wasn't enough and they would strike and not join unless they got a very good salary AND were allowed to conduct private practice as well if applicable. Apparently the government of the day had on standby thousands of Drs from all over Europe to come in and do the work of the UK Drs - in fact I think this actually did happen and it was this leverage that finally made GP's come into the NHS - they had no choice. Such a caring lot some of them -not.

best wishes

Mandy

[Guest guest]

I'm not sure either Mandy, I guess it's a case of take your

choice - see -

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1125177/

http://www.wellards.co.uk/help_desk/influencers/gp_practice/gp_practice_prescribing_in_primary_care.htm

http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/12580/

http://rcgp-innovait.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/4/237.abstract

Luv - Sheila

From: thyroid treatment

[mailto:thyroid treatment ] On Behalf Of Mandy

Jennings

Hi

Sheila,

Not

sure what 'prescribing incentive schemes' are - if this is

the scheme from years ago where drugs companies pushed their goods onto Drs

with the promise of leather briefcases or a holiday in the sun - or is it a

newer scheme where the government actually pays them to prescribe a drug in

preference to another.

Would

be interested to know what scams the medical profession are up to now.

,_._,___

[Guest guest]

Mandy, the doctors also said that they had to have the overall say over medical decisions - not the government. And that too was agreed to. That is why the medical profession is a world unto its self. And that is why when we write umpteen letters to the Minister for Health all he says is that he is referring to the relevant medical body. Dah - the very one we are complaining about he is getting advice from as to whether our complaints are valid or not.

Doctors were given incentives by the government of the day to have targets, such as 90% female patients to be screened for cervical cancer, and X% patients to have the flu jab. I remember at one time people were complaining that their doctors were striking them off because they refused some things and therefore the doctor didn't reach his target and therefore didn't get his incentive.

Also if you recall with the swine flu jab, the doctors refused to do it unless they received £5+ per jab they did.

I wonder if statin prescribing was one of the incentives. If it was no wonder they were pushing everyone to take statins.

I think the "experts" (probably paid by pharmaceutical companies or some organisation with their own financial interests at heart) who the government call to advise them, have told them that by giving everyone statins it will save a lot of money. For example if an "expert" told them that if they treated thyroid properly it would save a lot of money, then they would listen, but their "thyroid experts" obviously have a different agenda. There is a conflict of interest - the government want to save money but the experts they choose seem to want the opposite.

Lilian

Not sure what 'prescribing incentive schemes' are - if this is the scheme from years ago where drugs companies pushed their goods onto Drs with the promise of leather briefcases or a holiday in the sun - or is it a newer scheme where the government actually pays them to prescribe a drug in preference to another.

[Guest guest]

Would these be from the drug companies when they pay for expensive conferences,

holidays and 'fact finding' missions for GP's?

'prescribing incentive schemes'