Primary Care – Page 218
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Alan Johnson wants fewer London PCTs
Alan Johnson has called for a debate about whether there are too many primary care trusts in London. The health secretary told HSJ that he didn't think having 31 PCTs covering London was 'the most sensible arrangement'.
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Johnson keeps the faith on inequalities
Health secretary Alan Johnson says the life expectancy gap is closing and he is promising the end of GP shortages. There is more to do but this is no time for a 'counsel of despair', he tells Rebecca Evans
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NHS alcohol misuse services are inadequate - National Audit Office
The NHS is not doing enough to stem effects of alcohol on health, the National Audit Office has warned.
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DH appoints autism adviser
Elaine Hill has been appointed as the specialist adviser for autism at the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health information: tackling the prostate cancer taboo
A play by Benjamin Zephaniah has helped tackle the stigma of prostate cancer. Suresh Rambaran explains how it came about
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Patient and public involvement leads to satisfaction
The draft NHS constitution has stirred only apathy in many quarters.
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New formula spells end for minimum practice income guarantee
GPs and NHS Employers have agreed a formula that could phase out the minimum practice income guarantee. The guarantee has been strongly criticised, as it means GP practices suffer no financial penalty if patients choose to go elsewhere.
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Hold-up: Treasury eyes NHS surplus
The Treasury is in talks with the Department of Health over the NHS's £1.7bn surplus and when the service will be able to spend it.
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Nigel Edwards on NHS exceptional case panels
Over the summer no media report on the state of the NHS was complete without mention of the postcode lottery in treatments, either through challenges to primary care trust exceptional case panels or the perceived ethics of the current rules on top-ups.
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Why a health service redesign hit the rocks
With controversial reconfiguration plans in Sussex appearing shelf-bound, Alison Moore looks at the lessons for other trusts and asks whether changes on that scale are just too unwieldy to succeed
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NHS absence from individual budget trials was 'missed opportunity'
The failure to involve the NHS in individual budget pilots was a 'missed opportunity' and deeply regretted by the social services staff who took part.
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Patient choice at risk from healthcare monopolies
Primary care trusts may need to find new methods of protecting patient choice if integrated care organisations become monopoly healthcare providers.
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Alan Johnson orders trusts: cut waits for speech therapy
NHS organisations must work with allied health professionals to bring down 'unacceptable' waiting times for services such as speech therapy, health secretary Alan Johnson has told them.
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Michael White on keeping patients out of hospital
It is not often you read of a new controversy in the Sunday papers and stumble on what looks like the answer in Hansard before bedtime. It happened this week. Here goes.
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Lisa Rodrigues on the financial crisis and the NHS
We live in strange and worrying times. As I write, another building society has been nationalised.
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Advice for PCTs on managing provider arms
Managing PCT provider arms is not a straightforward matter, as Jeremy Roper explains
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Focusing on health inequalities
Bristol primary care trust is using an enhanced equality impact assessment to reduce health inequalities by transforming the way it allocates funds
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NHS Alliance rallying cry for social enterprise
The NHS Alliance has begun its annual conference in Bournemouth with a call to arms for the social enterprise movement.
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HSJ Knowledge
Widening gap in life expectancy
Inequalities in health are a key concern for health policy in all five countries of the UK and Ireland.
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Public LINks hit by delays in networking
Public and patient involvement in health and social care has been seriously set back by widespread delay in establishing local involvement networks, a report claims.