Primary Care – Page 259
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HSJ Knowledge
New media - new medicine?
Innovative projects in patient care are making good use of new media, write Shak Gohir and Eve Knight
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Comment
Carers must be treated with dignity
Lord Darzi has been asked by the health secretary.to review the main challenges facing the NHS, including ensuring that care for people with long-term conditions is joined-up, patient focused, offers best value and is delivered with dignity in the best location for each patient, which for many will be their ...
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Illegal immigrants and the NHS - unfinished business
The NHS's duty to illegal immigrants is no simple matter, as David Lock explains
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News
Contract dispute could drive wedge between GPs and PCTs
Moves to change the terms of GP contracts in Suffolk could spark 'ructions' between primary care trusts and GPs across the country.
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HSJ Knowledge
Safe crackers
Putting patient safety at the heart of NHS services needs a significant cultural shift. HSJ and Microsoft brought together key leaders to ask how to make this happen
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Ministers must win battle on provision to fulfil early promise
'While other parts of the public sector have learned to work with a mixed economy, the NHS still flinches at the idea of private involvement'
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Fewer targets means more accountability
'The reduction in targets does not mean data collection will be weakened. For example, health inequalities cannot be monitored without understanding smoking cessation, obesity and infant mortality'
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HPA warning on sexual health target
Increasing pressure on sexual health services could undermine progress towards the target of ensuring patients have access to a genito-urinary medicine clinic within 48 hours by 2008.
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Johnson wants competition to prop up poor GP access
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told primary care trusts to use independent sector providers to fill gaps in services. He has also told PCTs to produce local action plans to improve poor access to GP services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Success story: pulmonary rehabilitation
One primary care trust's award-winning pulmonary rehabilitation service has made a real difference to local people's lives, as David Peat explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Making care more flexible for mothers
A national survey of mothers' experiences shows they are being given more flexible maternity care - but there is still room for improvement.
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HSJ Knowledge
Helen Bevan on the best practice puzzle
'When a new idea is adopted by around 15-20 per cent of the target, it is likely to take on a life of its own and spread naturally'
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News
David Lawrence offers some words of advice to Mr Brown
'Yes, Mr Brown, as you well understand, the NHS is a business operation in that it is an input-output system with desired outcomes'
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Comment
Protecting public and patient involvement
The blind drive to force the introduction of local involvement networks and abolish patient and public involvement forums is dangerous and misguided.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Comparators website launched
NHS Comparators, a web-based service that displays data for hospital admissions for key conditions and all outpatient referrals by GP practices, has been launched.
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HSJ Knowledge
The role of primary care in tackling allergic diseases
The Information Centre for health and social care.has published an analysis of patterns of allergic diseases in patients diagnosed in primary care.
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HSJ Knowledge
How information can support the transition from hospital to home
The Information Centre for health and social care is at the heart of UK-wide initiative to develop information to support community care.
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HSJ Knowledge
Activity project leaps obstacles
Barriers to sport and physical activities for children with special health needs are being removed, explains Helen Sugden
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Jenny Rogers on dysfunctional teams
'What wrecks many noble projects is feelings, and human beings have an infinite number of ways to sabotage here'