A DAY IN THE LIFE OF

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF

• REFORMED GENERAL PRACTICE

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• How do the current reforms affect our patients?
• How do the current reforms affect our clinical
  performance?
• What do we need?
• What are we doing about it?

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OGP

• Organised General Practice (OGP)
  means
• groups of general practices, managers, and
  others working together in networks of
  cooperation and support, providing both
  individual and population oriented care for
  enrolled communities of patients.
• OGP embraces new responsibilities including, for
  example, activities in public health, screening,
  illness prevention, disease management and
  resource management.
• OGP accepts accountability for health outcomes
  and the best use of resources. OGP is supported
  at all levels by excellence in management
  services, to ensure optimum effectiveness and
  efficiency.

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• While Primary Care Practitioners will be
  encouraged to join PHOs, membership will be
  voluntary
• Hon Annette King, Minister of Health 2001
• Yeah right!!!

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• How do the current reforms affect our patients?

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• How do the current reforms affect our clinical
  performance?

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Bureaucracy
Sustainability
Relationship with funders ???
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• Crisis of morale in general practice
• Feel undervalued and untrusted
• Feel disempowered and disengaged
• Government control

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• What do we need?

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• What are we doing about it?

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• RE- REFORMED
• GENERAL PRACTICE