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Take a peek at our youtube channel for caperings from some ICB representatives at Scrutiny Committees…
Recording of Healthwatch event on Same Day Access hubs, with the excellent straight-talking John Lister, chaired by Cllr Ketan Sheth who also chairs the NWL Scrutiny committee (30th April)
ICB Board meeting held in Hillingdon with last minute inadequate webcasting and no subsequent recording (but SOFD has a transcript!). The ICS confirms to supine partners that it is pressing ahead regardless of a lack of evidence. Rob Hurd repeats his baseless claims that the changes are mandated by national NHS policy. (17th April)
The Pulse reports that Health Minister Andrea Leadsom has rebutted NWL ICB CEO Rob Hurd’s assertion that these changes are “national policy” (18th April)
RBKC MP Felicity Buchan launches a campaign and another petition against the proposed changes: “I believe that we need to retain the link between patients and their GP surgeries. I am very concerned by the lack of consultation on these far-reaching proposals.” (11th April)
A mysterious new ‘Stakeholder Briefing’ appears on the NWL ICB website, dated 19th (or 20th) March but not posted until early April. It is different in tone to the 27th March “your questions answered” document to local GP Clinical Directors, but only seems to actually contradict the latter as regards any serious pilot-project evaluation being possible or in the pipeline. At the same time, this ‘Briefing’ announces that the ICB plans to throw “national and local money” at pushing its call-centre hub model for North West London. (3rd April)
Queen’s Park Area Residents Association respond (with strong detail) (19th Feb)
Concise brilliant analysis from Oxford GP Helen Salisbury: ‘Levelling down general practice” in The Britsh Medical Journal (13th Feb)
Some other evidences and arguments (in rough order of significance and “fun”)
‘The Future of General Practice’, Report by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee – chaired by Jeremy Hunt – skewers the entire premise of the ICB’s proposed changes in its report dated October 2022. (Also see the Summary extracted here.)
Comedian Chris Morris nails the case for Family Doctoring in this laugh-out-loud address to the annual conference of the Representatives of Local Medical Councils, 23rd Nov 2023 (skip past the intro to hear Chris)
More research is needed before anyone should claim that only “some” patients need continuity in Primary Care (BJGP Open, accepted 23rd Feb 2024)
Proving that the new “model” is not locally designed – West Berks, Oxon & Bucks (BOB) unveil the same plan from the same consultants from NHSE working for KPMG!