NHS Reforms

Mine is ten digits. It's not the same as your EMIS number, if you have one for ordering prescriptions online, etc.

One problem with pooling resources is that CCG/STP boundaries aren't the same as local authority boundaries.

That’s a difference between England and Wales then growstuff, as our GP practices are not ever managed by commercial organisations, the Health Boards manage all NHS services.

Thanks for explaining, B9exchange.

growstuff

Mine is ten digits. It's not the same as your EMIS number, if you have one for ordering prescriptions online, etc.

All these numbers, I'm starting to feel like The Prisoner...

Just wait till they combine the NI number and the NHS number, then the Government will really have you by the short and curlies!????

I was wondering, much has been said about rewarding NHS staff for their work during Covid. What about handing control of the NHS over to them? It would be run by a board consisting of representatives of the staff, people from professional organisations such as the BMA, RCN, etc and the unions representing office/cleaning staff- like UNITE. The Health Secretary could sit on it but not control it. So the control would be taken out of government hands and the idea of things changing every 5 or 10 years would go. Anyone who has worked in the NHS do you think it could work?

Operose Health Ltd, the UK arm of the large US healthcare insurance provider Centene Corporation, is to take over AT Medics, one of the leading providers of primary care services in London.

AT Medics operates 49 GP surgeries across London, providing services to around 370,000 people, with 900 employees, which until the takeover was owned by six GP directors.

lowdownnhs.info/news/us-takeover-of-a-network-of-gp-practices/