Primary Care – Page 247
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Staff engagement: getting it right
After 18 months running the out-of-hours GP service in Cornwall, services company Serco has learned some valuable lessons about training and staff engagement
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Clinical networks - delivering world-class commissioning
Clinical networks have proven to be a valuable tool in delivering effective service provision and commissioning. Peter Melton explains
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Community matron intervention tools
Gina Jones at Coventry primary care trust has kindly supplied NHS Networks with some community matron intervention tools developed by the PCT. These are now available to download from the community matrons network.
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David Peat on ending the enslavement of health inequalities
Overcoming health inequalities that have built up over generations will take vision and determination
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Creating a viable national maternity service
Confidence in flexible community midwifery services should transform current reliance on acute settings, writes Marina Colville
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Sophia Christie on collective commissioning
Commissioning needs to be reformed and strengthened at every level, writes Sophia Christie
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Scots NHS24
The troubled Scottish telephone helpline NHS 24 has lost its third boss in three years, this time after less than six months in post. Sandy Forrest, a former deputy police constable, stepped down last week. A statement said he had joined NHS 24 with a number of external commitments and ...
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PCTs raid public health funds to pay debts
Primary care trusts will spend less than a third of their Choosing Health funding on the public health problems it was intended to tackle, a survey has revealed.
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PCTs in race to improve commissioning
Primary care trusts have been told that ministers could strip them of their commissioning role unless they show a marked improvement in performance.
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Health check: PCTs struggle to improve
Primary care trusts are struggling to improve as quickly as other sectors and have seen a decline in the quality of their services.
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Long-term care reforms will seek fairer system
The government's review of long-term care could shift the balance of payment between the individual and the state.
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Community matrons: new guidelines on fitness to practise
New guidelines have been published to support the development and implementation of community matrons and case managers. Lucy Dennis explains
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New hope for people with long-term conditions
A new £4.95m Health Foundation initiative working with patients and staff across theUKhas offered new hope to people with long-term conditions. The Co-creating Health project will empower local people with long-term conditions to take control of their lives by encouraging better partnership working between patients, doctors and nurses.
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LMCs don't want polyclinics
GPs are set to challenge Lord Darzi’s blueprint for the NHS inLondon.BMA local medical committees inLondonhave called in doctors from the Royal College of GPs and the London Deanery in a bid to commission research that challenges what they say are assumptions in the plan.GPs are particularly anxious about the ...
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Commissioning: skills for the future
Since commissioning at primary care level offers an unrivalled opportunity to shore up the foundations of the NHS, pitching in is the way ahead, suggests Andrew Jones
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Boots could host 150 walk-in centres in its stores
Private companies are lining up to provide the extended access to family doctors called for by Lord Darzi in the interim report of his review into the future of the NHS.
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Family doctors should prescribe English lessons, Royal College of GPs chair proposes
GPs should be able to prescribe language lessons to patients who struggle with English, the chair of the Royal College of GPs has urged.
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PCT denies new director has conflict of interest
Hampshire primary care trust has appointed a new director of commissioning - on secondment from commissioning firm Humana.
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NHS Employers and BMA publish findings on practice funding
NHS Employers and the British Medical Association’s GPs committee have published a joint report on the outcome of the consultation on the review of the global sum allocation formula for practice funding.
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Choosing Health tackles health inequalities in prisons
Lifestyle initiatives are being taken into prisons to deliver healthy living messages to the most disadvantaged groups in society, writes David Williams