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Practices to receive share of ‘winter access fund’ if they increase in-person appointments
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Practices to receive share of ‘winter access fund’ if they increase in-person appointments
There is discord over the health secretary’s desire for doctors to provide more face-to-face appointments
Updated statistics on dementia prevalence, hospital admissions, care and mortality, at the national and subnational geographical areas in England.
GPs are being put under pressure, an MLA has said, to staff Covid centres with a warning they could be financially penalised if they refuse. The Health & Social Care Board has written to a number of practices urging them "once again to reconsider your decision" not to work in the centres. The letter then states that, as no-one from the surgery is working in a Covid centre, it must now provide evidence that it has met targets in order to be eligible for payments that recognise good clinical practice. This is despite the fact an agreement was reached earlier this year to suspend the Quality O...