All GPs articles – Page 84
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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.
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NewsDozens of consortia match PCT area
Nearly half of primary care trusts are expecting a single commissioning consortium to span the same geographical area that they currently cover.
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HSJ Local
Community nurses aligned with GP practices
STRUCTURE: A major re-organisation of community nursing in East Kent has seen district nursing teams aligned with GP practices.
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Comment'Life had really changed in the NHS, following the reforms of 2011'
Dr Charles Alessi ruminates on what a day in the life of a GP in the new NHS might be like, years from now, following the successful NHS reforms of 2011…
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NewsBMA votes against rejecting entire Health Bill
The British Medical Association has voted not to reject the entire health bill in a secret ballot.
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Blogs
Prioritising mental health commissioning is brave, but it's also sensible
The decision to focus on mental health care, as Brighton GPs are doing, is indeed a brave one. But it is also one that makes a lot of business sense for any GP consortium, big or small, urban or rural, anywhere in England.
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NewsGMS agreement to reward GPs for saving money
Nearly a tenth of practices’ performance related pay could be linked to the rationing of NHS resources from April under an agreement between GPs and NHS Employers.
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HSJ KnowledgeDrawing on past lessons to improve future public health and wellbeing
While many of us recalibrate our new roles and responsibilities in the future NHS model, the opportunity to draw on the lessons of the past 20 years to inform our futures could help make sense of these times of great change and opportunity, and deliver improved health and wellbeing of ...