Primary Care – Page 246
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Generic drugs could save PCTs £200m
Primary care trusts should do more to encourage GPs to prescribe cheaper generic drugs, the public accounts committee has said.
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Why achieving equality in healthcare is proving tricky
Spending on heart disease detection and treatment perfectly illustrates how the neediest patients often get the rawest deal. Could local scrutiny ensure fair play? Sally Gainsbury reports
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Welsh health boards' checks on GPs 'lack rigour'
The general medical services contract has come under fire for failing to deliver value for money in Wales - as have local health boards for failing to hold GPs to account.
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Screening for breast cancer misses targets
Three in 10 women aged 50-70 are not receiving breast cancer screening every three years, despite government targets.
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Practices and PCTs at odds over budget survey claims
Strategic health authorities have questioned whether a national survey of practice-based commissioning is valid.
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Most PCTs want to keep existing accountability systems
Most primary care trusts do not want new structures for improving accountability to patients, NHS Confederation research suggests.
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HSJ Knowledge
It’s all about the individual
This HSJ Award-winning training and quality development programme for educators teaches a thoroughly patient-centred approach. Stuart Shepherd is keen to learn more
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Workplace health trainers
'Ambassadors' in the workplace are being equipped to promote healthier lives. Lynne Greenwood reports
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David Peat on getting world class commissioning right
Call them benchmarks, standards or targets, it is no bad thing to have aspirations and the will to achieve. It is also good to be put on the spot sometimes, to help streamline the process and refine best practice.
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BMA under fire over GP pay row 'scare tactics'
Primary care trusts have rounded on the British Medical Association for drawing patients into its pay row. The accusation comes after the doctors' union distributed thousands of posters warning the public that the family doctor service is under threat.
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GPs failing to pick up patients at most risk of heart disease
GPs in some of the poorest areas of the country are failing to identify patients with coronary heart disease and treat them effectively, HSJ’s analysis suggests.
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Simon Stevens on Brown's first health speech
Until last week, Gordon Brown had been surprisingly - even painfully - quiet on where he thought the NHS should be headed. But last Monday he finally showed some leg, in the form of his first major health pronunciamento since moving into Number 10.
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Longer GP hours are not a priority for patients, Darzi is told
Regional leaders of the review of the NHS are set to meet health minister Lord Darzi today to discuss emerging themes from their work.
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HSJ Knowledge
Salaried primary care dentists accept new contract
The British Dental Association has confirmed that salaried primary care dentists in England have voted to accept proposals to modernise their contract, negotiated by NHS Employers and the BDA.
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James Kennedy on rethinking out-of-hours care
Forcing GPs to provide out-of-hours care may not be the best way to rebuild public confidence in these services. Instead, the government should look to other providers to fill the gap
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Maggie Rae on action for equality
Christmas came early for me insofar as all the objectives I wanted to deliver were prioritised in the NHS operating framework. I was delighted to see health inequalities in there.
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HSJ Knowledge
Should the NHS pay for an unwanted child?
If a child is born following a botched sterilisation, should the NHS foot the bill? Ben Troke explains why the courts tend to say no
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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.