All GPs articles – Page 83
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HSJ Local
Great Yarmouth consortium plans future with local clinicians
STRUCTURE: More than 70 clinicians and healthcare professionals met this month to discuss the plans for the future of healthcare in Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
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NewsWin a free place at the GP Forum
Next week sees the launch of the General Practice Forum in London. GPs and commissioners who subscribe to HSJ can apply for one of 10 free places at the event.
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HSJ Local
CCP to assess merger of Sefton GPs with Liverpool Community Health Trust
STRUCTURE: The Cooperation and Competition Panel has accepted the referral of a proposed merger between nine GP practices currently in NHS Sefton’s provider arm and a community health trust.
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NewsCQC praises choice but warns on speed of improvements
People now have more choice over their care but improvements in quality have stalled in recent years, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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Blogs
Are we ready for the million-pound GP?
While debate rages over whether GPs might double their salaries as a result of GP commissioning, a new type of service provider taking on a risk-sharing contract could see those in charge stand to make much, much more, writes Nick Goodwin.
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HSJ Local
Practice nurse and sessional GP proposed for NHS Islington shadow consortia board
STRUCUTRE: The north London primary care trust GP consortium shadow board willl see 11 voting members, seven of them GPs.
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HSJ Local
Medway announces it will have single GP consortium
STRUCTURE: NHS Medway has announced that local GPs have voted overwhelmingly for a single consortium to take on the responsibility for commissioning in the area.
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NewsPatients more satisfied with hospitals than GP services
An analysis of patient feedback has found significantly lower rates of satisfaction for GP practices than for hospitals. It also found that NHS patients preferred being treated at private hospitals.
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NewsMajor GP inquiry finds 'wide variations'
An inquiry into primary care quality has found “wide variations in performance and gaps in the quality of care”, and called for much more published information about GP services.
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NewsHowe promises to 'expose' underperforming GPs
GPs will be “monitored, supported and held to account” by consortia as the NHS moves to “expose substandard general practice”, health minister Lord Howe has told HSJ.
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NewsInform patients about GP service conflicts of interest - DH adviser
Patients referred to GP services commissioned by the consortium to which the practice belongs must be told of the potential conflict of interest and offered an alternative, a government adviser has told HSJ.
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NewsWatch live: King's Fund findings on the quality of general practice in England
Watch as the King’s Fund unveils the findings of its inquiry. Live on 24 March, 8.30am to 10am.
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HSJ Local
Hove GPs plan move into church
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has launched a consultation on plans to convert a closed Hove church into a medical centre housing two GP surgeries.
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NewsLabour’s ex-health minister calls for NHS price competition and more private provision
Health Policy Insight editor Andy Cowper reviews Lord Norman Warner’s new book A Suitable Case for Treatment – the NHS and reform.
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HSJ KnowledgeSimulation Lab: What if GPs developed a special interest in dermatology?
One in 10 visits to a GP is dermatology related. This simulation tests what would happen if more GPs developed a special interest in dermatology and were able to see and treat patients themselves. Alter the per cent of patients seen by GPs with special interests to see the impact ...
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NewsGP appointment frustrations revealed
Hundreds of thousands of people cannot book GP appointments because none are available, or struggle to get through to their surgery on the phone, according to a new survey.
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NewsGPs 'to become change agents' - Lord Warner
The government’s planned reforms will “throw down the gauntlet to clinicians and give them their head to produce significant change”, according to the coalition-appointed chair of the Social Care Funding Commission.
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CommentCan GPs become agents of change, or will they remain gatekeepers?
In my forthcoming book on the NHS and reform, I have devoted a chapter to trying to answer the question of whether GPs can move from gatekeepers to change agents. Andrew Lansley’s reforms pose the same question along with others – do a sufficient number of them want to make ...
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News
Pace of consortia handovers varying widely
A quarter of primary care trusts are racing ahead to hand over commissioning budgets while a third have no clear plans to “let go”.
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NewsManagers back calls for top earners to pay more towards pensions
The vast majority of managers responding to a snap online HSJ survey think higher earners should pay more towards their NHS pensions.