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My concerns about the ‘independent evaluation’ of the choose your GP practice...
I have written to the current Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, about my concerns about the proposed policy to abolish GP geographical boundaries. To my first email, I received a non-reply...
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Third ‘reply’ by Department of Health to my warnings about problems with...
In my last email to Jeremy Hunt and health ministers, copied to the Health Select Committee, I wrote: So far you have evaded the issues I have raised in my previous emails. I am saying that this policy...
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Department of Health response to my second email to Jeremy Hunt
This is the Department of Health’s ‘response’ to my second email to Jeremy Hunt: Our ref: DE00000813924 Dear Dr Farrelly, Thank you for your further correspondence of 13 October to health ministers...
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If abolishing GP boundaries is such a good idea, why won’t the Department of...
I have written on three occasions to the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, copied to the Health Select Committee members (and miscellaneous media outlets) about some very basic problems with...
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A question for NHS England (London) on GP boundaries and patient access
I have read a draft version of your Primary Care Commissioning Intentions for London 2014/15 London Region (v 1.1) and the following caught my eye: ….access to primary care services continues to be...
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It is now crystal clear: the Choose your GP Pilot ‘independent evaluation’ in...
Yesterday the practice manager of a large Tower Hamlets practice (and CCG Board member) and I went to meet with Professor Nicholas Mays and two other authors of the Evaluation of the choice of GP...
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How does registering with a GP near your child’s school benefit you? Question...
28/6/14 Dear Katherine Murphy, I am a GP in Tower Hamlets and have been following the Government’s policy regarding GP practice boundaries with some bewilderment over the past 4 years. I became aware...
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5 + 47 + 3 + 17 = 8? Not in the world I work in
How to cut through the Kafkaesque Government smoke and mirrors to get at what is wrong with their flagship policy to improve the NHS by giving patients the ability to choose their GP practice, anywhere...
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The Department of Health’s ‘reply’ to my email to Jeremy Hunt
In mid-February 2015 I emailed Jeremy Hunt raising concerns about the policy allowing patients to be registered with participating GP practices even though they live outside the practice area. The...
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I complained to Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman about DoH...
In September 2013 I sent Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, an email pointing out the problems inherent in the Coalition Government’s flagship policy to make it possible for patients to...
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