Primary Care – Page 283
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NHS should treat gambling addiction
The British Medical Association has called for gambling treatment to be made available on the NHS.In recommendations to help healthcare professionals deal with the growing problem of gambling addiction, it calls for gambling operators to pay at least £10m a year to fund research, prevention and intervention programmes.From September new ...
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Guidelines aim to tackle medicine supply problems
The government and the pharmaceutical industry have joined forces to beat medicine supply problems in England.The Department of Health, the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry and the British Generic Manufacturers Association have produced guidelines to ensure unavoidable shortages are handled more collaboratively in the future.Read the guidelines here
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Commission appoints new head of independent healthcare
The Healthcare Commission has appointed Jon Billings as head of independent healthcare.Mr Billing has been acting in the post since March 2006 and was previously in charge of the Commission's London and South East Region operations team.He takes the role as the commission moves to inspecting fewer independent healthcare sites ...
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Comment
Rotherham chief executive Brian James on why Gerry Robinson can't fix the NHS
'Disappointingly, Sir Gerry never seized the opportunity to explore and challenge consultants as to how they could be more efficient and productive, which is ultimately the key to eradicating waiting times. The opportunity was sacrificed for a much simpler story of consultants versus managers, with both sides presented as stereotypes.'
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A prescription for professionalism
What ideas like NHS independence lack is not the eye-catching headline or even the fine detail but the implementation and local connection
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Dr Pat Troop on managing the Polonium-210 outbreak
Staff have learned what it is like to work intensively at that speed under public and political scrutiny, and it has been useful training for future events, such as pandemic flu
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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US best practice on diabetes care
Knowledge gained from a Health Foundation fellowship trip to the US is being brought into play in Bolton
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HSJ Knowledge
Doncaster PCT: helping incapacity benefit claimants back into work
A new local occupational health service has resulted from a project that focused on incapacity benefit claimants.
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DoH publishes pharmacy contract review
The DoH has published its review of contractual arrangements in the retail pharmaceutical sector and the impact of reforms to the 'control of entry' system.The review found that the market has been opened up by the reforms and that twice as many pharmacies opened in 2005-06 than in any year ...
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Dentistry services on the increase
The amount of dental services commissioned by the NHS is continuing to rise, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health.The figures also show that since the new dental contract was introduced last April, more services have been recommissioned than were lost in rejected contracts by dentists.Read the ...
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HSJ Knowledge
US best practice on diabetes care
Knowledge gained from a Health Foundation fellowship trip to the US is being brought into play.in Bolton
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Campaign to bring cold comfort for older people
The Department of Health is using tomorrow's St Hilary's day - the coldest day of the year, according to folklore - to raise the profile of its Keep Warm Keep Well campaign. It offers advice to older people, disabled people, those on low incomes and anyone else who needs it ...
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Trust chiefs warned on race compliance
The Commission for Racial Equality is going to get tougher on NHS organisations that fail to meet race relations legislation, according to NHS chief executive David Nicholson.He has written to trust chief executives to alert them that the CRE 'will be taking a more proactive stance in exercising their enforcement ...
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Multimedia advice pioneers wanted
The Department of Health and NHS Direct are calling for primary care trusts to come forward to bid to become the the early adopter for a new NHS Health Direct service to provide multimedia advice supporting personal health improvement. The internet, digital television and mobile phone service was proposed in ...
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Clinical governance at old PCTs was patchy, finds National Audit Office
Almost all the old primary care trusts had put in place clinical governance structures and processes but fewer had actually made sure they were working, a report from the National Audit Office says today.
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GP contract talks collapse over pay
Talks about next year's GP contract have broken down. The British Medical Association said on Tuesday that the offer made by NHS Employers was 'not sufficient' and called on the doctors and dentists review body to recommend an across-the-board uplift for GPs under next year's contract.
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London PCTs fear provider role is being overlooked
Directors of London primary care trusts lack confidence in the future development of and investment in community health services, according to a survey.
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Proper workforce planning needed, says BMA chair
British Medical Association chair James Johnson has called on the government to reinstate proper workforce planning - or risk wasting millions of pounds of public money.Speaking at the BMA's 'State of the NHS' briefing, Mr Johnson said: 'In 2008 the year-on-year significant rise in additional NHS resources will fall back ...
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GP contract negotiations stall
An agreement on the general medical services contract is unlikely to be reached in time for the April deadline, NHS Employers has reported.NHS Employers GMS negotiating team chair Dr Barbara Hakin said that she had told the Department of Health that the British Medical Association's GPs committee had made it ...