DOCTORS NOT CALL CENTRES PETITION – SIGN HERE

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Starting from April a new system for emergency appointments with a GP across NW London will be rolled out.
This new system is being imposed by NW London health bosses on ALL GP practices in our area. You will
contact a ‘hub’ where a ‘care coordinator’ will do the triage – not a GP!
Only patients with ‘complex long-term conditions’ are likely to be be looked after by their own GP practice.
The Londonwide GP body (the LMC) is deeply concerned by these changes:
 This is not safe for patients. The person doing triage will probably not be a doctor but somebody with
much lower qualifications – and cheaper!
 GPs are trained in diagnostics; care coordinators are not.
 Continuity of care may be lost – the hub may not be in your own practice
 GPs have had little or no say in this change; residents have still not been told!
We call on NW London ICB to withdraw this unsafe, untested and imposed new system and to work with GPs
and residents to improve services.
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