Primary Care
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HSJ Interactive
Improving the pathway for people with severe heart valve disease
With growing numbers of people experiencing aortic stenosis, it’s argued value and quality of care could be improved by smoothing the current pathway
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HSJ Interactive
As the first covid-19 peak ends, elective care demand and capacity modelling must take a new form
Amid an array of new complications, historic models for elective care will need to be reimagined and patient safety remain a guiding principle, argues Karina Malhotra
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HSJ Interactive
Will covid-19 close the integrated care gap or widen it?
It is time to rapidly shift our focus onto the primary, community and social care frontline to make our vision for integrated care a reality, writes Conor Burke
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HSJ Interactive
CCGs should embrace a multiplatform approach to enhancing care
Instead of opting for a single solution to digital first primary care, CCGs must provide a range of solutions to meet the needs of both patients and healthcare professionals, says Dr Martin Godfrey
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HSJ Interactive
The how, the what and the why of the long-term plan for CCGs
Julie Wood explores the need to do more at local level and how commissioners are working with provider partners to change their relationships and find bespoke solutions to local problems
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News
Drive to uncover true level of patient harm in primary care launched by NHSE
The English NHS is to make its first attempt at revealing the scale of harm caused by primary care interventions.
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Comment
A sudden flow of funding into primary and community care would not work
To bring about a paradigm shift in the model of care, the NHS needs a radical change from short-term to long-term thinking, writes Dr Joe McManners
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: The worrying ‘normal’ of maternity care
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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News
Systems slashing plans vital to government reforms
Tight finances are forcing integrated care systems into short-term cuts that will undermine ministers’ reform agenda and longer-term financial sustainability, local leaders have warned.
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News
Revealed: The 22 areas testing radical changes to GP operating model
HSJ can reveal the 22 primary care networks taking part in an unprecedented national programme designing a new “GP operating model” set to influence the national GP contract.
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News
Trust selects company chaired by CEO’s wife for £8m contract
A trust chair has said he is “completely satisfied” with the way his organisation selected a GP co-operative chaired by its chief executive’s wife to provide an £8m urgent care contract.
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News
Revealed: Why GP numbers will barely increase under national workforce plan
More than 1,000 medics funded to take GP training every year will not go on to work as fully qualified GPs in England, according to details of the NHS long-term workforce plan obtained by HSJ.
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Comment
Business-as-usual NHS management won't work for 'fixing the front door'
Primary care faces the same challenges as the rest of the public sector, but typical NHS management processes can’t solve them, argue three healthcare leaders.
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News
Trust-owned GP provider doubles in size despite ‘NHS rulebook’
A foundation trust’s GP provider has grown rapidly in the past year to become one of the largest in England, its team has told HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Opening up the FDP
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024: Primary Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board: Primary Care Quality Assurance Toolkit
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News
Revealed: the scale of the squeeze on primary care capital funding
Primary care has been subjected to the biggest squeeze in government capital spending in recent years, according to figures behind a major report into the state of the NHS.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Getting what you pay for
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast guest host Ben Clover and colleagues talk winter, money and “collective action” from GPs.
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Comment
What might ‘Starmerism’ mean for health and care?
Politicians must value and mobilise local community organisations to fill gaps left by cuts in services to improve health and social care, writes Sir Chris Ham
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Tumbling into a full-on row
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.