Primary Care – Page 242
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Sophia Christie on managing cultures in the health service
Naturally an optimist, I always like to start the new year reflecting on emerging opportunities. Primary care trusts had a lot to get excited about in the last few months of 2007 with the development and launch of world class commissioning. The experience has been reminiscent of the publication last ...
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Social care users want free basic service but will pay top-up
Up to three quarters of social care service users support radical reform of the funding system, a multi-agency survey has revealed.
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Healthy diet messages not hitting home
Healthy eating messages are failing to change people's decisions on what food to buy, a government report has warned.
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Preventive care rhetoric could become reality
Gordon Brown's keynote health speech was not just a crucial moment in the bid to relaunch his premiership (for more details, click here). As the NHS heads towards its 60th anniversary, his government's ability to deliver these reforms will have a profound impact on the service's long-term future.
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NICE must reform say MPs
The health select committee has recommended sweeping changes to the way the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence assesses what drugs and treatments should be available on the NHS.In their report published today the committee says that NICE’s cost threshold of£30,000 per quality life year gained, which it uses ...
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Vitamin D heart disease link
Researchers in the US say that a lack of vitamin D may be linked to an increase in heart disease.
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Disabled people twice as likely to be in poverty
A report on disability poverty in the UK claims that disabled people are twice as likely to live in poverty as non-disabled people.
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How to live 14 years longer
A new study claims that the combination of four health behaviours can add up to 14 years to people's lives.
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Welsh social services improve
Care and social services in Wales improved during 2006-07 but the quality of some services remains inconsistent, according to a report published today.
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HSJ Knowledge
Prison welfare to healthcare
Louise Berktay talks to the people working to drive up healthcare standards at a Birmingham prison
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HSJ Knowledge
Social enterprise - a world class solution?
The first batch of presentations from Social Enterprise - A World Class Solution?, a conference held inLondonon 15 November, are now available online. Further presentations will be added in due course.
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HSJ Knowledge
Partnerships against heart disease
A collaboration between pharmaceutical firms and the NHS is forming a united front against heart disease, explains Jan Balmer
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on streamlining processes in the NHS
Why not find out why a process risks wasting money rather than add another process to try to check it, says Andrew Castle
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Scotland's pledge on opening hours faces GP resistance
The Scottish government has set itself on a collision course with GPs by promising extended practice opening hours as part of a package to improve access to primary care.
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Operating framework reasserts DoH's central control
NHS chief executive David Nicholson's exhortation to look out to communities, not up to the DoH at Richmond House, is starting to look like lip service, given the new operating framework's raft of extended targets, writes Sally Gainsbury
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GPs back call to vet leaflets
There is mounting pressure to introduce a system for vetting information leaflets in GP surgeries after it emerged many are sponsored by big brands or contain large amounts of advertising.
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New health check will rate PCT commissioning skills
Primary care trusts will be assessed on the quality of commissioning as part of next year's health check.
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Hunt on for missing £870m as DoH accused of hoarding cash
The Department of Health is keeping back up to £870m in NHS funding, HSJ has been told - and is suspected of hoarding the cash to pay for extra initiatives next year.
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new community hospital schemes announced
Just over one third of the£750m announced in 2006 to modernise community hospitals has now been allocated, the Department of Health has said. The£750m was due to be spent over five years on either building new community hospitals or super surgeries, or renovating old ones. It followed the 2006 health ...
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS procurement - the rules on tendering
Rules requiring trusts to tender health services contracts can be difficult to interpret, particularly for primary care trusts. Anne Crofts explains