Primary Care – Page 236
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HSJ Knowledge
Engaging the public in commissioning
Engaging patients and the public has long been policy mantra. Now legislation is making it a reality. Andy Cowper explains
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Supplements
Future of commissioning: progress report
In December 2007, the Department of Health and the NHS launched the vision for world class commissioning.
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HSJ Knowledge
Making practice based commissioning perfect
Practice clinicians are being seen as the linchpins of future local procurement of quality care services, as Andy Cowper explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Workforce planning - six steps for success
Using national guidance to plan its whole workforce has been a trust-wide ambition for a South West PCT. Helen Mooney reports on how the work has paid off
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HSJ Knowledge
Health inequalities in primary care
Benchmarking can help PCTs tackle deprivation and achieve performance and funding practices that compare with the best, says Nigel Crew
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Comment
David Woodhead and Adrian Kelly on reducing teenage pregnancy
With the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in western Europe, the UK needed to take serious steps to meet its goal of halving incidents by 2010
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HSJ Knowledge
Change of focus for Primary Care Contracting
After NHS Primary Care Contracting lost its national funding, it had to ask each primary care trust to subscribe to its services. Despite positive feedback on its performance, it had to adopt a more practical focus to win support, say Helen Northall and Roy Greenhalgh
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Comment
Paul Jennings on listening to staff
Improving communication with staff took Walsall Teaching primary care trust from the bottom 10 per cent to the top 10 per cent in the national staff survey
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HSJ Knowledge
Bringing a troubled PCT back from the brink
After forming from smaller trusts in 2006, Cambridge PCT found it owed £70m and needed to make some serious changes to avoid disaster. Gail Newmarch explains
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News
Doctors plan industrial action vote
Doctors are set to vote on industrial action at the British Medical Association's annual GP conference next week.
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News
King's Fund urges polyclinic caution
Primary care trusts should consider polyclinic models that do not centralise GP services under one roof, the King's Fund has urged.
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Comment
Steve Slack on why being gay is still bad for your health
Despite improvements in UK legislation protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, discrimination is still affecting the quality of health and social care this community receives.
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HSJ Partners
Defining the role of the physiotherapist
With more than 35 million work days lost each year in the UK to occupational ill health and injury, it has been widely acknowledged that physiotherapists should play a key role in delivering future occupational health strategies, which in turn must be brought into mainstream healthcare provision.
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HSJ Knowledge
Making joint strategic needs assessments work
Joint strategy to identify the service needs of local people became a duty last month. Renu Bindra looks at how some areas are making the process a success
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Leader
Vulnerable people's fate must not fall to faceless bureaucracy
Health secretary Alan Johnson has called for a 'national debate' on how we will meet the needs and costs of an ageing population.
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News
End of postcode lottery could put PCTs in a spin
The Primary Care Commissioning Network will pool PCTs' expertise to help them make decisions on using new treatments while they wait for NICE guidance. But trusts that choose to ignore the network's advice could find themselves facing a media storm. By Alison Moore
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News
Johnson pledges better care for minority ethnic groups
Black and minority ethnic people are not getting the primary healthcare they need, a government report has shown.
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News
Councils could lose social care funds to DWP
Local councils could be stripped of their control over the 7bn adult social care budget under proposals being explored for the forthcoming social care green paper.
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HSJ Knowledge
Is world class commissioning the answer?
Two healthcare management experts lock horns over whether the drive to raise the standard of commissioning really can transform the quality of care
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News
NHS website aims to dispel career myths
A survey published by NHS Careers has highlighted the mixed feelings among undergraduates towards a career in the health service.