All GPs articles – Page 2
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NewsFive GP contracts terminated after company ‘breaches trust’ with ICB
An integrated care board has decided to terminate and retender five GP contracts after the firm which holds them was sold to private equity without the commissioners’ permission.
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NewsExclusive: GPs to escalate action over contract row
GP leaders have promised to ramp up their collective action and accused some NHS England officials of wanting to “deliberately starve” general practice as their contract dispute intensifies.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Tony Blair’s digital health record proposal
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS enhance value in primary care prescribing?
An HSJ roundtable, in association with Spirit Health, discussed the challenges and strategies for optimising prescribing practices, improving cost management, and fostering better collaboration within integrated care systems
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NewsPrimary care excluded from drug deal because GPs and commissioners cannot be trusted
Primary care will continue to be denied access to drugs whose price has been reduced as part of a deal between government and the pharmaceutical industry because “commissioners, doctors and pharmacists” cannot be trusted with confidential information about costs, according to an NHS England letter.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Walking into a GP trap
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsStreeting orders ‘emergency measure’ to avert doctor unemployment
Concerns that many GPs completing their training this summer could be left without a job has forced government to release an extra £82m to pay for their employment.
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NewsSenior managers to get 5% pay rise
Senior NHS managers will receive a 5 per cent pay rise this year, while Agenda for Change staff get 5.5 per cent and doctors 6 per cent, government has announced.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Watchdog branded ‘not fit for purpose’ and told ‘comprehensive reform’ needed
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will ministers rob primary care to pay primary care?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentThe collateral damage caused by the row over physician associates
As NHS funding debates heat up, first-contact physiotherapists are unfairly targeted. Despite their crucial role in managing musculoskeletal conditions and easing GP workloads, their importance should not be overshadowed, writes Ash James
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NewsGP industrial action may hit all services, ICBs and trusts warned
Integrated care boards and trusts should develop plans to deal with potential “whole system” impact of GP “collective action” from next week, NHS England has warned.
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NewsIT outages hit thousands of services
Thousands of GP practices – and some other localised services – are without their IT systems today, due to global outages also affecting banking, media and aviation.
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LeaderDoctors’ pay: a warning from Labour’s past
In November 2002, HSJ sat opposite then prime minister Tony Blair in the cabinet room and asked him what he planned to do about consultants’ refusal to accept the new contract the government wanted to introduce.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Bold moves to address the crisis and key appointments at the top
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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NewsThreefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
Patients trying to reach their GP are almost three times as likely to fail to get through in the worst-performing integrated care systems than the best, according to analysis of new annual figures.
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CommentThree quick wins the NHS can secure at almost no cost
These quick wins can help the NHS restore public confidence within this Parliament, despite the financial constraints, says London Ambulance Service chief executive Daniel Elkeles.
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HSJ PartnersHow better data and technology can improve our approach to medicines optimisation
Meera Parkash, a clinical facilitator at Optum® and former head of medicines management at Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group, describes the obstacles holding back medicines optimisation in primary care — and explains why technology can be a catalyst for change
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NewsThree ICSs spent £21m on vacant property last year
Three integrated systems spent £21m on empty space in buildings leased from NHS Property Services last year.
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NewsNHSE cancels £300m IT plan after legal claim
NHS England has been forced to cancel a proposed £300m framework for digitising GP services — part of efforts to recover primary care access — after being sued by a technology company, HSJ has learned.