{"id":245,"date":"2012-02-09T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T12:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/?p=245"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:05:11","slug":"link-open-but-full-gp-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/02\/09\/link-open-but-full-gp-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Link: &#8220;Open but full&#8221; GP lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ <a href=\"http:\/\/careers.bmj.com\/careers\/advice\/view-article.html?id=20006443\">reports<\/a> on the announcement of plans to &#8220;remove incentives for general practices to have \u201copen but full\u201d patient lists&#8221;. It explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Currently if a practice wants to close its patient list and stop accepting new patients it risks losing the right to provide additional and enhanced services. As a result some practices keep their list open but stop accepting new patients, declaring their list \u201copen but full.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This term is not legally recognised within the contractual arrangements for GPs and is confusing to patients, the health department has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;\u00a0The department also plans to give practices more say over the closure period and allow practices to reopen their lists when they choose, subject to a notice period. However, practices will no longer be able to open or close their lists according to growth or contraction of their patient population, the so called \u201cping pong\u201d arrangements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>GPs&#8217; patient lists are an issue we&#8217;ve covered previously on HMI Health. <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2011\/09\/14\/data-patient-numbers-by-gp-practice-in-birmingham-east-and-north\/\">In September we published data on patient lists<\/a> (we now have national data covering 4 years) and <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/01\/11\/link-the-one-gps-protest-blog\/\">in January we profiled<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/onegpprotest.org\/posts\/\">One GP&#8217;s Protest blog<\/a>, which\u00a0talked about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onegpprotest.org\/current-registration-policy-the-problem-in-a-nutshell\/\">the problems with registration policy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the move to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onegpprotest.org\/2012\/01\/08\/my-initial-comment-on-government-pilots-on-boundary-free-general-practice-is-it-a-fraud\/\">remove boundaries to GP practices<\/a>, the scheme which these announcements are intended to support.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If you want to help investigate either patient lists or boundaries, <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/how-can-i-get-involved\/\">get in touch<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Link%3A+%E2%80%9COpen+but+full%E2%80%9D+GP+lists+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D245\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Link%3A+%E2%80%9COpen+but+full%E2%80%9D+GP+lists+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D245\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ reports on the announcement of plans to &#8220;remove incentives for general practices to have \u201copen but full\u201d patient lists&#8221;. It explains: &#8220;Currently if a practice wants to close its patient list and stop accepting new patients it risks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/02\/09\/link-open-but-full-gp-lists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[153,151,3,152,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}