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Hi All, I Have Just Found Out On Another Podiatry Forum(tfs) That In A Certain Areas, (not Named) Nhs Podiatry Depts Are Sending Out Referrals To Pp For Routine Care.

I Don't Know If This Is True, But I Think It Would Be A Great Idea!!!

Everyone Would Be Happy!!!

Lowered Nhs Waiting Times!!!
Everyone Would Get The Service They Require!!!
No one Would Suffer!!!

Is This The Answer?

 

Hi (ok to say "thatfootsite" on this forum by the way).
Pro's are as you say.
Cons are as outlined by Alex Catto in the "How do practitioners calculate their fees" thread.
Unless contracts are national (and watertight) you could end up with a chunk of your practice income being taken away with little or no notice.
You're right to be excited though. My opinion is that this is the future of podiatry in the UK - done properly :) .
Cheers,
David

 

Hi David,
It will be interesting to find out who will chose the PP that the NHS patients will be sent to and how they come to this choice of individual.

Ronnie

 

Hi,
The fact is, there are more pod patients in the UK than there are pods to deal with them. Mark Russell is very knowledgeable in this area, and he feels that to go forward with this, contracts and conditions of work would need to be sewn up at govt/DOH level.
Thereafter the patients would be free to choose who they want to go to.
Its a win-win situation :) PROVIDED contracts are watertight.
Locally-arranged contracts are of little use. They generally mean that patients can be withdrawn at a few weeks notice, and of course this is no good to anyone, either patient or podiatrist.
A few of us feel that we need to be pro-active in this area, not simply sit and "wait and see". Its worth looking at Mark's thread on Scottish Parliament and petitioning, and if you felt it worthwhile you may like to sign?
Cheers,
David

 

Hi David, can you post a link to Mark's thread please, I cant seem to find it.

Thanks

Dave

 

Hi Dave,

It should be around somewhere. It was 8 years ago mind!

 

http://www.podiatry-arena.com/podiatry-forum/showthread.php?t=87

That's the thread but there's been a lot of water passed beneath the bridge since then!

 

http://www.podiatry-arena.com/podiatry-forum/showthread.php?t=87

 

Well, all, I must need glasses because I haven't seen it ! :D

regards

Catfoot

PS No wonder I haven't seen it, this thread is 8 years old for goodness sake - my mistake - duh

 

Scuse me guys but doesn't the present health and social care bill, local funding structures from clinical/GP commissioning and 'any qualified provider' tendering fit the bill for an "all sewn up at govt/DOH level" condition.

Dave Smith

 

Dave

By the time the present government's bill on health and social care comes to fruition I doubt very much they will be able to afford the paper to print the detail on, never mind funding it properly. Chances are there will be no podiatry provision in state funded care - it is not regarded as a core essential service - and is way down the line of priorities. There may be "approved" providers - but the cost will be borne by the patient, not the NHS. That said, I see Jeremy Runt has been promoted to Health Secretary in today's idiots reshuffle - so we might see homeopathic podiatrists gaining consultant status in the very near future. But not surgeons - sorry surgical podiatrists....

Best wishes