Over 1,000 GPs face potential conflict of interest between profits and patients

Over 1,000 GPs face potential conflict of interest between profits and patients


National Audit Office reveals that two in every five board members of clinical commissioning groups, which make funding decisions, are family doctors

Two out of every five board members of local NHS funding organisations are GPs who are in a position to put their own financial interests before their patients, the public spending watchdog has found.

An investigation by the National Audit Office discovered that 1,300 family doctors have the potential to personally profit from new health services because they are also members of the governing body of their local clinical commissioning group (CCG). Guardian

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