Alarming Removal of 300,000 Patients in a Year Threatens Practices, BMA Warns

Alert as ‘ghost patients’ costing NHS huge sums every year

Practices are sending out letters

BMA condemns ‘patient list cleansing’

Over 300,000 patients have been stripped away from GP practices across England in the last year as part of what the BMA describes as NHS England’s ‘aggressive national patient list cleansing exercise’. The BMA announced the scandalous practice in a press release issued yesterday on the eve of its Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) which opens […]

Alarming removal of 300,000 patients in a year threatens practices, BMA warns

GP leaders have questioned the validity of an 'alarming' list cleaning drive that has slashed more than 300,000 patients from practice lists over the past year.