Primary Care – Page 199
-
NewsSHA negotiates £124m national NHS Direct contract
NHS East of England has negotiated a £124m contract for services from NHS Direct on behalf of the English NHS.
-
NewsBanned PCT video edges towards a million views
The primary care trust whose teenage pregnancy video was banned from YouTube has said it has been astonished by the “huge response” it has received.
-
HSJ Knowledge72 hours... and counting - meeting the summary discharge target
Are you meeting the NHS contract requirement to get discharge letters to GPs within 72 hours? Will you be ready for the 24 hour requirement starting in April 2010? Find out how to do it at this free online seminar. Register now and watch the debate on demand on your ...
-
NewsConservatives promise to axe dentists' contract
The Conservatives have outlined plans to scrap the existing NHS dental contract and introduce a registration scheme for patients.
-
NewsNew deputy chief executive role for Islington PCT
Islington primary care trust has created a post of deputy chief executive, which will be filled by the PCT’s current chief operating officer Helen Pettersen.
-
NewsDerby City primary care trust appoints director
Derby City primary care trust has appointed a new strategy and market management director.
-
HSJ KnowledgeHow social marketing reaches more smokers
Initiatives are showing promise that approaching the public directly can engage greater interest in issues such as stopping smoking. Lynne Greenwood reports
-
NewsNHS staff could have stopped abusive GP sooner
An independent review into a GP jailed for carrying out 23 indecent assaults on patients over a 20 year period has found NHS staff could have acted at least 12 years earlier than they did.
-
HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve quality of diagnosis
Little research exists into issues around GPs and acute clinicians getting diagnoses wrong. Ingrid Torjesen asks what the NHS is doing about this crucial quality issue
-
NewsFears grow over flu pandemic stockpiles
Concerns are growing over whether primary care trusts will be able to avoid running out of flu pandemic equipment amid confusion over who should be stockpiling supplies.
-
LeaderPatient reported outcome measures raise questions of how need for operations is decided
HSJ’s revelation this week that tens of millions of pounds are being spent on treatments that arguably do not improve patients’ lives serves to focus minds.
-
NewsLondon’s primary care trusts gain world class commissioning back-up
The head of a London-wide organisation has set out how it will help the region lift its world class commissioning scores.
-
NewsFormer finance director reprimanded for accounting failings
A former primary care trust finance director has been reprimanded by her professional accountancy body after her organisation had to adjust its accounts by £7.1m.
-
NewsPrimary care trusts warned over misuse of end of life care cash
Ministers have called on the Department of Health to make primary care trusts prove they are not spending extra funding for end of life care on other services.
-
NewsNHS asset sales are unlikely to meet Treasury expectations
The NHS will struggle to provide the Treasury with its expected windfall from asset sales, Department of Health data shows.
-
NewsNHS nets huge drugs saving
The NHS has saved nearly £400m in the space of a year through more cost effective prescribing.
-
NewsBaby P review reveals 'systemic failings' in NHS
Trusts have been urged to ensure they are meeting child protection standards in a report revealing “systemic failings” in the NHS’s treatment of Baby Peter.
-
NewsMPs warn NICE over cancer drug 'inequities'
MPs have attacked as “inequitable and inefficient” the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to allow less cost efficient drugs to be given to people at the end of their lives.
-
CommentNHS clinical leaders: take a leaf from the military's book
As a military medical officer working in the NHS and a Health Foundation Leadership Fellow, my professional development has been different from that of most clinicians in the UK, writes Ed Nicol
-
NewsSwine flu stockpiles could compromise NHS, pharmacists warned
The Department of Health has warned pharmacists not to stockpile swine flu medicines because this could undermine the NHS’s ability to cope with a pandemic.