Debate contribution: GP Indemnity Arrangements
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 18 February 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- GP Indemnity Arrangements
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806398
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I have made it clear that my ambition is to rebalance how HSC services are delivered to facilitate a greater proportion of care being provided by primary care, community care and social care to get it as close to people's homes as possible to relieve some of the pressure on secondary care. That will require a combination of investment in the core general medical services contract through the GP contract and in the wider primary care services and workforce. When I first talked about shifting left, there was concern, particularly among doctors and people who work in primary care, that I would be asking them to do more for the same amount of money. That is not the case. I recognise that if we are going to ask them to do more, we will have to pay and commission them to do so. The challenge is how to get away from the pressures on our acute hospitals outright because that is where all the really expensive procedures take place. Therefore, if you can focus on prevention and early intervention, maybe you will relieve a bit of the pressure on the acute hospitals and release some cash, which can be put into primary care.
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