GPs have to be informed now that they must decrease the hospital admissions which are not scheduled by almost one fifth till the end of the year 2013. This plan is a part of the string of targets by the government aimed at keeping several thousand patients out of the hospital every year.
 
Ministers have come up with a new efficiency program which needs the GPs to give a 10 percent reduction in A&E attendance along with another 20 percent cut in admission which are not scheduled when working with hospitals to decrease the length of stay by 25 percent.
 
Sir John Oldham, GP and the Department of Health’s national clinical lead for quality and productivity said in an interview with Pulse that the sudden cuts should be immediately implemented and there was no plan B.
 
The DH firmly believe that the set targets are achievable by way of implementing some reforms to the Payment by Results tariffs which will be announced next month along with a latest clinical dashboard to pin point those patients who require preventive care.