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Type 3 initial practice allowance
The collaborative working allowance
The London Initiative Zone (LIZ) incentives originate from the 1992 Tomlinson Report on London's health services, and have been devised to improve primary care in a variety of ways, including the encouragement of 'workforce flexibilities'. This chapter concentrates on those LIZ arrangements which are based on the Red Book. The workforce flexibilities are available until 31 March 1998, and the special arrangements for improvement grants until 31 March 1999. The provisions for rent and rate reimbursements, for practitioners in health authority owned accommodation, have no time limit.
The London Initiative Zone is an area comprising twelve London health authorities (five in whole and seven in part) where there are major deprivation problems. Only those GPs practising in the zone who also meet the following conditions are eligible for any of the workforce flexibility allowances. (Each health authority in the zone must publish quarterly the number of its GPs who do so.) Practitioners need to:
• be single-handed or in a two-doctor partnership (or in an equivalent arrangement for job sharers and part-timers)
and, if in a partnership
• have a partnership agreement which conforms to the BMA model and current GMSC guidance, together with BMA approved employment arrangements for staff
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• agree to a programme of action to improve patient care which conforms to criteria jointly developed by the LMC and the health authority.
Any doctor or practice which satisfies these general criteria of eligibility may apply for one of the following allowances.
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| Book Title: Making Sense of The Red Book | ||