Primary Care – Page 169
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NewsTrust warned over asbestos breach
The Health and Safety Executive has issued an improvement notice to NHS Wiltshire.
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HSJ KnowledgeCapturing the costs of community services
Evidence is essential to designing community services that truly transform care delivery rather than simply shift vulnerable budgets, warns Noel Plumridge
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NewsNHS call scheme 'risking lives'
Lives are being put at risk by a new centralised call centre for hospitals in Scotland, doctors have claimed.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS services online: learning from local authorities
Local authorities have worked creatively on their public advice websites and the NHS can learn a lot from their achievements, say Dean Russell and colleagues
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NewsRuth Carnall: I'm not resigning
NHS London’s chief executive Ruth Carnall has said it is her “firm intention” to stay in post following the resignation of two of its directors.
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NewsNHS should focus on outcomes, not targets - Lansley
The health secretary has said the NHS should focus on health outcomes, patient experience and safety performance and is grappling with whether to drop key waiting times targets.
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NewsNHS service change plans will face stricter controls
Plans for major NHS service change will in future have to meet stricter standards, including the approval of GP commissioners, under rules to be announced next month.
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CommentJohn McGowan on service-user involvement
It’s time we shattered a great NHS myth and said that service-user involvement is often of little or no use
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NewsRole of patient data questioned following inpatient survey
Questions have been raised about how trusts and regulators should use patient feedback, after findings from the latest annual inpatient survey appeared to contradict inspection reports.
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NewsBMA questions 'costly venture' of removing practice boundaries
Removing general practice boundaries will increase bureaucracy and costs at a time when the new government is under pressure to make savings, doctors’ leaders have warned.
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NewsImperial College Healthcare chief backs GP integration
One of the biggest hospital trusts in England wants to convert itself into a vertically integrated care organisation.
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NewsLong term condition services inefficient due to poor design
Many primary and community care managers are designing ineffective and inefficient services for people with long term conditions, a senior Department of Health adviser has said.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on the new NHS value for money
One of the impacts of the election result could be that the deep fascination the leadership of the NHS has with the nuances of their secretary of state’s policy will in the near future provide very diminishing returns.
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CommentMichael White on coalition compromises
When is the glass half full and when is it half empty? It’s all a matter of temperament, in my experience. The 400-point Lib-Con coalition agreement seems to have been a relatively painless negotiation as far as the 30 health (plus four on public health) points are concerned. Should we ...
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NewsNew PCT medical director
A new medical director has been appointed to Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT.
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NewsPortsmouth City PCT faces external investigation
A strategic health authority is considering using its strongest powers against a primary care trust, rated as “underperforming” for the seventh consecutive month.
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NewsCourt to rule on transsexual case
The legal right of a transsexual to NHS funding for a breast enlargement operation is due to be ruled on by the High Court.
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NewsNHS 'facing significant change' - Confed
NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards has said the health service faces significant changes under the new government.
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NewsLansley: NHS must review reconfiguration plans
Planned service reconfigurations must be reconsidered under “strengthened criteria” set out by the new health secretary today, including support from GP commissioners.