‘Depleted and exhausted’: British GPs demand fee-for-service payments
They claim the NHS capitation system has become outdated and inadequate.
GPs in the UK say they want to be paid fee for-service, warning the nation’s capitation funding system is “outdated and inadequate”.
The declaration follows a vote on expanding private billing by GPs at the British Medical Association’s conference last month.
Currently, GPs are paid almost exclusively in the form of block payments from the National Health Service based on the number of patients registered to the practice.
But Dr Russell Brown, a GP in East Sussex, says his colleagues in England are at breaking point, deluged as a result of the number of patients on their lists.
