All GPs articles – Page 24
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CommentEnding cancer inequality for young people
Louise Soanes explains the need for the main political parties to address the specific challenges faced by young people with cancer, particularly around the stark inequality that plagues the health service that serves teenagers and young adults
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NewsPCNs permitted to pay charities’ management costs
NHS England has made it easier for charities to be involved in primary care networks — by allowing ringfenced budgets to be used to pay for third party management costs.
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NewsBMA takes NHS property company to court over ‘unlawful’ fees
The British Medical Association will take the much-maligned NHS property company to court over fees charged which the union describes as “unjustifiable”.
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NewsExclusive: Private finance scheme for the NHS scrapped
A much-vaunted scheme to use private investment for NHS capital projects has been officially scrapped, HSJ has learned.
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CommentMental health ‘at risk of being crowded out’ during election debate
Attention-seeking parties competing in the general election will priortise some, but not all, aspects of health and social care, writes Paul Burstow.
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CommentWhat about the patient?: Alyson McGregor
This week: Alyson McGregor, national director, Altogether Better
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Military and civilian health partnership award
WINNER: Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group – Reaching out to our military veterans and their families, reservists and adult volunteer cadets
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: System leadership initiative of the year
WINNER: NEL in partnership with OptiMedis-Cobic, Imperial College Health Partners, Social Finance and PPL – Hampshire System Integrator
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Primary care innovation of the year
WINNER: Modality Partnership and Healthy.io – Smartphone-enabled home albumin screening for people with diabetes
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Mental health innovation of the year
WINNER: City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group, East London Foundation Trust, City and Hackney GP Confederation, Core Sport and Clinical Effectiveness Group – An Alliance Model for Primary Care SMI Physical Health
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Acute sector innovation of the year
WINNER: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust – Modern Innovative Solutions to Improve Outcomes in Asthma, Breathlessness and COPD (MISSION ABC)
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Community or primary care service redesign – North, Midlands and East
WINNER: Hull Clinical Commissioning Group – The Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Community or primary care service redesign – London and the South
WINNER: Hertfordshire Community Trust – East & North Referral Hub Customer Service Transformation
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NewsRevealed: The NHS trusts acting as PCN "bankers"
Four NHS trusts have established a foothold in primary care networks, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRevealed: 40 per cent of PCNs flout NHSE guidance on size
Two in five primary care networks fall outside the recommended population thresholds set by NHS England to help maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the new structures, HSJ analysis shows.
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CommentGP waiting times: learning from the past
Tim Gardner on setting new GP waiting time targets, and the pitfalls of applying a narrowly-focussed solution to ‘fix’ a complex issue
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NewsNumber of primary care IT suppliers to quadruple
GPs are set to receive IT services from a much broader pool of suppliers after more than 50 new companies successfully bid to be on a major framework.
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HSJ InteractiveHow to transform outpatient care
Innovative approaches are needed to efficiently deliver the main functions of outpatient care, write Ben Horner and Rishi Das-Gupta
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The Queen speaks
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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NewsEx-NHSE digital chief becomes tech firm’s UK boss
A former NHS England digital chief has become UK managing director of a video GP company.