NHS Alliance reveals opposing listening exercise

It believes GP consortia are being left out of the coalition's own listening exercise as only five of the 40 members represent GPs. The body, which represents GP Consortia, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), clinicians and managers in primary care, commissioned the Listen Up exercise to "give clinical commissioners all the support they can get and ensure that their opinions are heard". This will "ensure consortia have a prominent voice at a time when there is a lack of real representation and a lot of confusion among those who are supposed to take clinically-led commissioning forward," it ad...