Dr. Tony Wright (Cannock Chase) (Lab): Can it be true that we had to pay GPs a lot more money to do a lot less work, and that now we have to pay them a lot more money to take on the work that we paid them to stop doing?Source: Hansard (here)
01 February 2007
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Correct. Because you see, in the govt's eyes, it wasn't (at the time of negotiation) paying more for less - it was paying for control. Control of Out of Hours services, which it valued at 6 grand per annum, per GP. It is now finding that they cost rather more than that to provide - something GPs already knew.
Control over what GPs did, by imposing a plethora of targets on them, and effectively putting them on performance related pay. No matter that the targets were mostly meaningless, GPs stepped up to the plate and 'performed' acrross the board far better than the government had projected.
In short, the government only has itself to blame.
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