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Patients dissatisfied at two-tier GP funding
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Patients of fundholding GPs are still getting to hospital
faster despite government attempts to ban preferential treatment, a
new survey says.
But the report says fundholders' patients are less satisfied
than non- fundholders' with some of the GP services they get.
Further, nearly half of GP fundholders say that "financial
considerations interfere with clinical decisions made by
fundholding GPs".
There are 2,600 fundholding GPs covering 40 per cent of patients
in England and Wale...
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