Millions of patients face being dropped by NHS GPs for being TOO HEALTHY | Daily Mail Online

Millions of patients face being dropped by NHS GPs for being TOO HEALTHY | Daily Mail Online



Doctors have always received a bounty for every patient name on their lists which provides their basic income. This has been going on since the beginning of the NHS.

Suddenly,doctors saw that if they combined,in little groups,they could pool their numbers and divide the income among themselves. They could also create a monopoly.

The beauty of the bounty system is that even if a name never needs to use the services of a doctor,every year the doctor gets a bounty for that name. Hence weeding out dead people is taboo in many group practices as is deleting those names, who may have gone into hospital,general or mental, or into care homes,either public or privately funded or even into prison.

Many healthy people move from area to area or even out of the country and their names are still on their original lists. When I got married and moved, I never changed my listing. After my divorce,I moved back into my original area and my doctor was none the wiser ! They had received their bounty in the intervening time.

People could easily be on several lists, as listing is not tied to a national insurance number, which is now issued at birth, in the Uk. Perhaps, many of the six figure incomes could be reduced, thus saving the NHS an awful lot of money,if an audit process was introduced. Most surgeries use computers and although records of illness may not be kept on them,surely basic information could be such as name, age, address, phone numbers and Email.