The Use of Overseas Doctors in Providing Out-of-Hours Services
Auteur: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Nombre de pages: 73 pages
ISBN: 0215553888, 9780215553881
Edition: The Stationery Office
Date de publication: The Stationery Office
Description: In 2004 new arrangements for out-of-hours general practice were introduced as part of a new General Practitioner (GP) contract with the aim of addressing inadequate standards and difficulties in retaining doctors in general practice. Many consider the new system an improvement on its predecessor, but it has some serious weaknesses. In particular the use of EEA doctors and the failure to check their language skills and clinical competence has led to poor clinical care and deaths of patients. It is on this aspect that this report focuses.