Dear Sir or Madam,

How many GP's who have retired but continued to practice, since
2004, have had their entry on the performers list removed and had
to reapply?

How many GP's who have retired but continued to practice, since
2004, have had their entry on the performers list ammended and not
had to reapply?

Yours faithfully,

Mr M Kumar

Dear Sir or Madam,

I submitted a Freedom of Information request on 18th May 2008. My
request was as follows.

How many GP's who have retired but continued to practice, since
2004, have had their entry on the performers list removed and had
to reapply?

How many GP's who have retired but continued to practice, since
2004, have had their entry on the performers list ammended and not
had to reapply?

A response was due by 17th June 2008, under the Freedom of
Information Act, but has not been received. I would be grateful if
you could give this matter your full attention.

Yours sincerely,

Milan Kumar

I am out of the office all day Wednesday 18th and pm Thursday 19th June.I will contact you on my return on Friday 20th.

Thank you

Mr Kumar, Apologies for the delay in replying to your email of 18th
June, I was on annual leave.

I am afraid that I cannot trace having received your FOI request of 18th
May. Please would you allow us to treat the current email as a fresh
request which I have passed to our Corporate Services and Claims
Officer, the appropriate officer within this organisation, for a
response.

Penny Harris
Communications Assistant
Leicester City PCT
St Johns House
30 East Street
Leicester LE1 6NB
0116 295 1535

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Dear Mr Kumar

I have been forwarded the email from you, below, regarding a request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act while I was on annual
leave and have only now been able to respond. Unfortunately, I am
unable to find any record of the initial request to which you refer.

However, I will now deal with your request and will provide a response
in due course.

I apologise for the inconvenience caused to you.

Yours sincerely

Chris Lawson
Quality Assurance Manager
Leicester City PCT
St Johns House
30 East Street
Leicester
LE1 6NB

Tel: (0116) 2951473
Fax: (0116) 2951457
Email: [email address]

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Dear Mr Kumar

Re: GP Retirement

Further to your email of 18 June 2008, I apologise that your original
request for information of 18 May 2008 was not acknowledged.

Regarding your question concerning how Leicester City PCT deals with
retiring GP's who continue to practice, prior to 2004 General
Practitioners had to leave the GP Medical List and apply for
re-inclusion if they wished to continue to provide NHS services within a
PCT area.

Since the introduction of the Performer's List and recent changes to in
Pension arrangements the requirement is now that GPs are allowed to
undergo a 24 hours retirement and a General Practitioner must restrict
his work within the first month for no more than 16 hours a week. Due
to this the GP must confirm with the PCT of this arrangement. Under the
new arrangements for performer's lists the Trust is no longer required
to remove their name from the list.

Since 2004 a total number of 19 GPs have retired in this way. However,
only 12 of these GPs continue to work within our area.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours Sincerely

Chris Lawson

Quality Assurance Manager

Leicester City PCT

St Johns House

30 East Street

Leicester

LE1 6NB

Tel: (0116) 2951473

Fax: (0116) 2951457

Email: [email address]

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