8 June 2011
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Teresa de La Rosa wants to change GP
The Patients Association is calling for an end to the “geographical strait jacket” of having to register with a GP near to where you live.
An official consultation has found 77% of those who replied back change – but 70% of health-care staff were against.
Doctors’ leaders say opening up practice boundaries could be expensive and undermine local care.
The Department of Health says it intends to give patients more choice from next April.
Its consultation attracted 5,459 responses.
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This is nothing to do with the patient – it’s only to do with their address.”
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Vanessa Bourne
Patients Association
GPs throughout the UK can refuse to register patients who do not live near their surgery, but health ministers in
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