GPs challenge London PCTs as practice contracts go to private companies

doi:10.1136/bmj.39496.687245.DB

BMJ 2008;336:412-413 (23 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.39496.687245.DB

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GPs challenge London PCTs as practice contracts go to private companies

Susan Mayor

¹ London

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Two groups of GPs have written to two primary care trusts (PCTs)in London expressing concern about the potential effect on thequality of care after a second contract to run a general practicehas been awarded to a private company rather than to local GPs.

Camden Primary Care Trust announced in late January that ithad awarded the tender to run three GP surgeries—King’sCross Road Practice, Camden Road Practice, and Brunswick MedicalCentre—to UnitedHealth Primary Care (BMJ 2008;336:295,9 Feb doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.889155.C2).

Four local GPs who bid for Brunswick Medical Centre, which theyhad been managing successfully for the previous six months,have written to Camden PCT expressing their concern that "patientcare will suffer." They believe that the decision was based"purely on cost, as opposed to quality."

Previously, another London PCT, Tower Hamlets, awarded a tenderto run St Paul’s Way Medical Centre to . . . [Full text of this article]

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