Primary Care – Page 274
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Partnership working needs financial conviction
'Anxious to move on from rows over cost-shunting, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has pledged to champion partnership working, pooled budgets and joint commissioning'
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Process pathways - the answer to 18 weeks?
Traditional efforts to improve efficiency and reduce waste in the NHS have focused on redesigning disease- or condition-based pathways. While this approach reaps the rewards of improved flow and quality of care, improvements are often on a micro scale and do little to attract investment into service improvement at a ...
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Ruth Hussey on creating social capital
'Social capital consists of.connections between family, friends, neighbours, the people we work with, and membership of community and civic organisations.'
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New age networks
In just two years, NHS Networks has established itself as a generator of co-operation and innovation. Edna Robinson and Sue Cavill report
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'Damning' review slams family planning services
The results of a review into contraceptive services in England are a 'damning indictment of contraceptive provision' in the NHS, according to sexual health campaigners.
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Your Humble Servant: dead man walking
‘It’s difficult to know who to ingratiate yourself with, which policies might survive and which we should backpedal on.’
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PCTs grapple with grey areas of GP-led commissioning
PBC has the potential to increase the quality and range of services available to patients, but PCTs must exercise caution to avoid conflicts of interest. Alison Moore reports
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Choose and book incentives continue after poor uptake
Incentives for choose and book will be extended for another year as GP practices missed uptake targets.
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NAO names inefficient prescribers in £200m drug waste
GPs squander more than £200m a year on overpriced prescriptions and drugs that go unused, a National Audit Office report has revealed.
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CommentBrown finally begins to reveal his blueprint for health reform
As the surreal spectacle of Gordon Brown campaigning for victory in a contest he has already won continues, his interviews and speeches are finally shedding light on his health policies.
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HSJ Knowledge
New ways of working regional workshops
Following a national launch on 25 April, there will be a series of.regional launches to support the implementation of new.ways of working throughout the summer.
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Dr David Jenner on the workability of PBC
Are primary care trusts and strategic health authorities really encouraging GPs to get to grips with practice-based commissioning? Or are some of them encouraging this policy to fade away?
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Kate Silvester on using data
Data is crucial to running an effective health service, but it can be misleading.
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Andrew Jones on independence day
'The conundrum is simply how to devolve day-to-day responsibility to an independent board with the benefits of efficient delivery, local decisions and avoidance of political interference'
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Commissioning: Practices may need a fairy godmother to make PBC work
Practice-based commissioning is the 'Cinderella' policy reform of the NHS.
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Senior appointments: Mascie-Taylor tipped to land new NHS medical director role
Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust medical director and former acting chief executive Hugo Mascie-Taylor tops the shortlist for the new NHS medical director, HSJ understands.
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'NHS family' accused of stifling entrepreneurialism
Established NHS organisations are stifling entrepreneurialism by engaging in 'obstructive, disruptive and protectionist behaviours', the NHS Alliance has warned.
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Dental contracts still in dispute
Dental contracts representing 4 million units of dental activity have still not been resolved, more than a year after being signed, year-end figures from the Department of Health show.
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New management teams tackle commissioning
Six management teams have been appointed to manage the North East's 12 primary care trusts after fears that last year's mergers did not go far enough to encourage strong commissioning.
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Back innovation and good judgement in primary care
Primary care trusts.are bound to weigh proposals fairly, but they cannot be compelled by entrepreneurs to make reckless decisions.