Seven local GPs have been elected by their peers to serve on the new Greenwich GP Consortium Shadow Board.
Under NHS reform plans put forward by the government, local GPs will gain control of NHS budgets and be able to commission healthcare services directly for their patients.
Doctors will form groups to manage this process and the line up of the Greenwich GP Consortium Shadow Board has been settled after 109 local doctors participated in an election.
The elected members are: Ram Aggarwal, Hany Wahba, Robert Hughes, Rebecca Rosen, Niraj Patel, Eugenia Lee and Nayan Patel.
The election count was managed by Greenwich Council’s Returning Officer and the single transferable vote system was used. Electoral Reform Services administered the count.
If the changes are introduced as planned, the consortium will take responsibility for commissioning services by April 2013 at which point the existing Primary Care Trust will have been phased out.
More information available here: http://www.greenwich.nhs.uk/gp_consortia