The announcement today aims to make it easier for commuters in the pilot areas, who are often away from their local area during the working day, to see their doctor where it suits them.
The one year pilot will begin in April 2012 and will be subject to an independent evaluation. It allows patients for the first time to choose whether to register with a practice close to their workplace or home, without worrying about practice boundaries.
The primary care trusts (PCTs) involved in the scheme pilot are Westminster, City and Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Manchester, Salford and Nottingham City. GP practices in these PCT areas will join the pilot on a voluntary basis. The areas selected have high numbers of commuters travelling into the area each day, and one of the sites, Nottingham, is an existing 111 pilot site.
Read the choose the best GP for you press release
I am a Health Visitor working in Sheffield>Registering with a GP of your choice concerns me as at the moment we spend alot of time liaising with GP’s regarding child protection and safeguarding.How would this occur if you had a family living in your geographical area but reistered in another?