All GPs articles – Page 52
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NewsNew national advisory board to tackle workforce issues
A new national advisory board with a system-wide coordination role for workforce issues is to be created, the NHS planning guidance has revealed.
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HSJ LocalCCG chair steps down to lead GP 'super-practice'
STRUCTURE: The chair of Corby Clinical Commissioning Group is stepping down from the role to lead a merged GP ‘super-practice’ which aims to become the largest primary care provider in England.
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CommentFTI Consulting analysis: Survey points to obstacles in way of forward view vision
Poll shows obstacles reformers are likely to face
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NewsSchism emerges over Stevens' integrated care organisation models
Plans to introduce a range of new care models into the NHS over the next parliament has split the opinion of provider chiefs and clinical commissioning group leaders
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NewsNHS England chief defines 'multispecialty community providers'
The NHS England chief executive has set out nine requirements that define a ‘multispecialty community provider’, one of the key care models in his vision for the future of the NHS.
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News'Success regime' will direct struggling areas to new models, Stevens reveals
National officials will create a ‘success regime’ in which struggling areas are directed to move quickly into the new care models proposed in the NHS Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens has revealed, while warning local leaders against attempts to ‘re-spray’ their existing plans.
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NewsSimon Stevens to give first HSJ annual lecture
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens will reveal his latest thinking on the future of the service in next week’s inaugural HSJ annual lecture.
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NewsFour in 10 GP practices need modernisation
More than 40 per cent of GP practices are unlikely to be capable of providing modern primary care services, according to analysis by construction consultants.
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NewsOOH providers warn over rising indemnity costs
Out of hours providers are struggling to find GPs to cover shifts because of spiralling insurance premiums.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe future for specialists is beyond a hospital’s four walls
Specialists can support and train GPs and nurses
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NewsSmaller GP practices fared worse under inspections, CQC finds
Smaller GP practices have fared worse under the Care Quality Commission’s inspections so far because of the “splendid isolation” in which some are operating, Professor Steve Field has said
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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NewsPrimary care 'in foothills' of modernisation, says NHS England director
Primary care has only reached the ‘foothills’ of transformation, Mike Bewick has said during an interview in which he predicts a “steeper fall” in the number of individual GP practices
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NewsBewick: Up-skilled GPs should support emergency and acute services
Emergency and acute services in some areas could increasingly be supported by up-skilled GPs, working across hospital and community settings, NHS England’s deputy medical director has said
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NewsPlans to involve GPs in NHS 111 'naive'
NHS England has ‘lost’ time exploring the use of GPs for the NHS 111 phone line as there are too few in the workforce to support it, a leading clinician has said
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NewsCCGs permitted to ditch QOF and national GP contract
Clinical commissioning groups will be free to allow GP practices to move off the national pay for performance framework and to create new contract arrangements
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SupplementsRoundtable: Put nutrition at the centre of public health
Tackling malnutrition with an integrated approach
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News'New care models' to cover half of England
More than half of England should be covered by new models of providing care, such as hospitals running GP practices, under a major shift proposed by national NHS leaders