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A furious row erupted last night as GPs claimed they had won ‘significant concessions’ over Sajid Javid’s plans to ensure more face-to-face appointments.
The British Medical Association (BMA) had voted down the Health Secretary’s package – announced after a Daily Mail campaign – which included identifying surgeries that saw too few people in person.
After a meeting on Wednesday night between the BMA and NHS England, there were claims that the plan to publish ‘league tables’ – showing what proportion of appointments were in person – had been abandoned, along with specific targets.
But the Department of Health moved quickly to insist it had made no concession to doctors’ unions. It said it would press ahead with measures to publish surgery-level data on face-to-face appointments.
GPs claimed last night they had won ‘significant concessions’ over Sajid Javid’s (pictured) plans to ensure more face-to-face appointments
A spokesman said: ‘There are no plans to change the set of measures outlined earlier
