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GPs received just four per cent of winter bailout money
Reports have suggested that GPs were allocated just four per cent of the £20 million winter resilience funding given to NHS organisations this year in a bid to ease growing pressures.
Dr Richard Vautrey, chair of the BMA's GP committee, said the £20 million sum was ‘variably distributed’, with CCGs that do not have GP Access schemes in their area given priority. Vautrey is among the GP leaders to have said the funding was ‘far too little’.
Vautrey said: “We were told that if a CCG already had funding for the access scheme the expectation was that they were already offering additional appointments compared with other areas and so this new funding was targeted at those CCGs that didn't already have that additional capacity available. Whilst any additional funding to support practices struggling with unsustainable workloads is welcome, compared with the amount found to give to hospitals this was far too little to truly deal with the pressures practices and community bases services are under.”
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