All GPs articles – Page 56
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NewsFall in patient satisfaction with GPs, survey shows
Fewer patients are finding it easy to book GP appointments, while trust in doctors and out-of-hours services has also fallen slightly, figures show.
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CommentAre GP commissioning reforms logical?
There is dissatisfaction with arrangements for commissioning GPs
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NewsLabour: bring back GP appointment target
The target for GPs to guarantee patients an appointment within 48 hours should be restored to help ease the pressure on accident and emergency departments, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said.
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HSJ Local
GP surgery faced closure in property wrangle
Landlords came close to closing a GP surgery amid a lease renewal blunder involving NHS Property Services and NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeGPs should overcome their suspicions about telehealth
One GP shares how it has reduced workload and improved care
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NewsExclusive: CCGs seek responsibility for GP services
Clinical commissioning group representatives have called on NHS England to support CCGs taking a greater role in primary care, following their first major survey of the organisations.
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NewsFive thousand deferrals in GMC skills check
Thousands of doctors did not immediately pass a new set of skills checks during the first year of assessments, figures show.
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HSJ KnowledgeScaling the NHS's diversity problems
Why are staff from BME backgrounds underrepresented at the top of the service?
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HSJ Knowledge'A hundred patients left – they didn’t want to go to Asian doctors'
Looking back over 50 years of Asian migrant workers in the NHS
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NewsSignificant cut to GP performance pay requirements
The GP pay for performance framework has been significantly pared back, with some of the proceeds used to pay practices to provide more comprehensive care for those at risk of admission to hospital.
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NewsIntegration fund could lead to 'yet more structural change'
The government’s allocation of £3.8bn for integration across the NHS and social care “will be used to fund yet more structural change”, and “cannot succeed without behaviour change of all actors in the system”, according to a report.
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NewsMonitor suggests changing primary care payment
The health sector regulator has suggested primary care payment mechanisms and commissioning responsibilities should be reorganised, to improve contracting of walk-in centres.
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NewsBMA backs GP networks but rejects seven-day working 'mantra'
The chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee has called for practices to “form network arrangements” and share staff to provide extended opening services and a “stronger community-based provision of care”.
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NewsPrimary care contracting faces cuts and possible outsourcing
NHS England’s primary care contract managers will be reorganised and reduced by September next year, with the services potentially being outsourced.
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NewsMonitor asked to consider hostility to new GP providers
New primary care providers are being stifled by GP commissioner hostility, and the inability of existing practices to sell their businesses, the health sector regulator has been told.
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NewsCQC will 'campaign for more GPs and longer consultations'
The Care Quality Commission will “campaign” for longer consultations and greater increases in the GP workforce, its professional adviser on primary care has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeTelehealth: a solution to bed blocking?
Supporting the transition from hospital to home care
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NewsDH policy chief calls for combined GP and community contracts
The health service should contract single services that link general practice with community health and care, the Department of Health’s policy director has said.