GPs to take control of patient funds

Ministers are pressing ahead with plans to give GPs control over 80bn pounds of NHS funding wich will see them arrange medical services for their patients. A ''white paper'' due next week will spell out plans for changes to the health service. It will probably lead to thousands of job losses among NHS managers and Administrators. The move will put GPs in charge of deciding which hospital or facility should provide care for their patients. they will also pay for the treatment and become responsible for the 80bn pounds of spending. GPs will be obliged to take on these responsibilitie, which may not please those who wish to concentrate on patient care. It is expected the plans will save up to 8bn pounds. It is unclear if GPs, who earn an average of 106,000 pounds, will be paid for the extra work.

http://guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/09/gps-patient-conservatives-nhs

This article was a bit unclear to me, this is why I left some parts out of this summary and only wrote down main idea of this article. I think that this system will more fair than any other system. So if you don't have a lot of money to affort a good health insurance it is still possible that your medical costs will be paid by the GPs. What does concern me is that GPs won't have enough time to handle al those task and probably need to hire someone. What means that the NHS managers will back where they were only under supervision of a GP.