Offering incentives to GPs improves clinical care but does not promote healthy lifestyles or improve patients' quality of life, according to findings published today in the journal Heart.
Researchers compared coronary heart disease results in Northern Ireland, where there are incentives in the GP contract, and the Republic of Ireland, where there is no performance-related pay.
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The NHS has made major concessions to ensure doctors sign up to the GP contract for 2020-21, which includes the primary care network agreement that incited considerable dissatisfaction among the profession through January.
A national strategy is needed to tackle health risks linked to antipsychotic drugs because current policy is letting tens of thousands of people fall through the gaps, commissioners in London are warning.
Introduced by the chief executive of the primary care trust as the director “from social services”, I was a regular attender at GP-dominated meetings of those responsible for primary and community health services.
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