What does the new GP deal mean for patients?

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Jobs in the health sector this week include positions with the new GP out-of-hours community treatment centres.

Inside Out looks at these changes and asks what the new GP commissioning system means for patients.

Sir, -The proposed new GP contract, which runs to 40 pages, is a thoroughly unpleasant document.

A new GP clinic offering 24-hour cover for the Gaeltacht in west Kerry opened yesterday in Dingle.

That puts pay and training -including the new GP contract -near the top of his priorities.

Both the reversal of Fempi cuts and a new GP contract are required to make general practice viable again.

But even so, he has concerns that the new GP-led commissioning groups will struggle to be ready by April 2013.

It was the first meeting with the new GP -a handover of business after the retirement of my old doctor.

People on low incomes could incur extra health charges for at least two months before having access to new GP medical cards.

This is that Lansley dreamt up the idea to create new GP-led consortia in a darkened room and failed to tell anyone.

They are having to take time off work. Neale, like Charnley and Ashley, still doesn't know who his new GP will be.

It is understood that one of the "substantive changes" would be to give nurses places on the new GP-led consortiums.

It is now only three months before the balloon goes up on the all- new GP-led NHS, when PCTs and SHAs will disappear.

The National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) has described Minister their exclusion from talks on the new GP contract as "Stalinist".