UK Doctors Offered Bribe To Hit Swine Flu Shot Targets

PULSE 10 Nov 09 By Lilian Anekwe

Exclusive: GPs at the centre of one of the summer’s swine flu hotspots have been offered bonuses worth thousands of pounds extra for hitting vaccination targets, Pulse can reveal.

NHS managers in Birmingham are so worried about the prospect of a winter outbreak that they have offered practices up to 50% over and above the payments agreed between the GPC and NHS Employers if they vaccinate a high proportion of the population.

The revelation came as Pulse learned the Department of Health has given PCTs the power to impose financial penalties on practices if they are forced to suspend routine work, raising fears GPs will be treated starkly differently by NHS managers during the outbreak depending on where they work.

NHS Heart of Birmingham revealed a sliding scale of bonuses, on top of the £5.25 practices will get per vaccination of patients in target groups and the relaxation of QOF patient survey thresholds if they hit the DH’s uptake target of 50.7% in at-risk patients under 65 years.

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