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New scheme to improve quality and convenience of care closer to home

Accreditation process for GPs and Pharmacists with Special Interests

Health Minister Andy Burnham today published new guidance to help health bodies and practitioners deliver high quality convenient care closer to people's homes.

Under government plans, GPs and Pharmacists with special interests will need to go through a new rigorous and fair form of accreditation to ensure they have the necessary skills to deliver efficient and effective patient care in the community that was traditionally only available in hospitals.

By shifting services in this way, patients will wait less time and have shorter journeys for treatment, as well as having a greater choice and convenience about when and where they are treated.

Today's guidance, Implementing care closer to home - convenient quality care for patients, provides practical support to NHS commissioners for the provision of more specialised services delivered by PwSIs. It includes:

- an introduction to shifting services into the community;

- a step by step guide on the issues for consideration when redesigning patient care using PwSIs; and

- a new nationally recognised accreditation process for GPs and Pharmacists with special interests that can be delivered locally to ensure services and the individuals working within them are underpinned by excellent clinical governance.

THIS IS ANOTHER GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE THAT HAS FORCED THIS NEW
ACCREDITATION TO BE INTRODUCED.
HOW MANY OF THESE G.P'S WITH SPECIAL INTERESTS WILL BE UP TO OR PREPARED
TO GO THROUGH THIS ACCREDITATION PROCESS, THIS WILL PROBABLY KILL OFF
THE CHANCES OF PCT'S TO FORCE THE PUBLIC TO HAVE TREAMENTS DONE IN
THEIR G.P'S OR A G.P LED CLINIC.....................THANK YOU MR BLAIR...............
YOU WILL KILL OFF A STUPID SCHEME, PLEASE NOW FUND EACH PCT EQUALLY
ACCROSS THE U.K, YOU KNOW IT'S RIGHT AND KEEP THE HOSPITALS OPEN


REMEMBER MR BLAIR.............................................


PATIENT CHOICE IS THE KEY

THIS WILL COME BACK AND HAUNT YOU LIKE THE G.P CONTRACTS...............