General Practitioners: Indemnity Scheme Debate
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Lord Kakkar
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General Practitioners: Indemnity Scheme
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Lord O’Shaughnessy
My understanding is that the scheme is for all providers of primary medical care services under GMS, PMS and APMS contracts.
Lord Kakkar (CB)
My Lords, I declare my interests as in the register. In reducing the problem of clinical negligence, it is vital to ensure that general practitioners are able to learn from the entirety of their clinical practice. As has been heard, many work in single-handed practices. How do Her Majesty’s Government propose to ensure that there is proper learning across the primary care system to reduce errors once mistakes have been made?
Lord O’Shaughnessy
The noble Lord is quite right. I point him in the direction of the learning from deaths programme, which is attempting to do exactly that.