England’s GP leader calls for end to “ridiculous” bureaucracy

The chair of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee (England), Katie Bramall-Stainer, has hit out at the levels of bureaucracy facing general practice and the involvement of GPs in queries and referral decisions she said they don’t need to be included in.In an impassioned closing speech at the England local medical committees conference in London on 24 November she said, “No more hospital staff signposting patients back to their GP to get them to write a letter,” she said. “Hospital and community speech and language teams, why don’t you sort out your own videofluoroscopy referrals? This is absolutely ridiculous. It’s for your own department and your own investigation. You haven’t got to get my permission to do it.”She continued, “Stop death by pro forma. Where I practise the long covid referral form has 114 questions and is eight pages long. This is absolute lunacy.”Bramall-Stainer also called for NHS trusts to develop…
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