GP consortia are “odds-on” to fall into deficit and be taken over by private firms when they take on commissioning, according to one leading GP.
The warning comes as private companies confirm they hope to run consortia if local GPs fail. Firms are also bidding to provide data the NHS Commissioning Board will use to performance manage consortia.
Dr Kambiz Boomla, a GP in east London and lecturer at London’s Queen Mary University, said there was little evidence GPs would be able to balance constrained NHS budgets, and the DoH would replace them with private firms if they failed.
“A few years ago almost all PCTs were in financial difficulties and that was during years of growth,” he said.
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