Primary Care – Page 301

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Admissions: cutting excess bed days

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Avoiding hospital admissions and reducing stays are ongoing priorities for primary care and acute trusts.

  • News

    Get help on improving children's services

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Organisational change: NHS Employers

  • HSJ Knowledge

    How to commission high quality, low cost health care

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The 152 new primary care trusts are tasked with becoming strategic commissioning bodies. This means they must procure a range of provision for local people, which meets their health needs and delivers health improvements, by securing the highest value for their limited money. Stating the task is easy. Delivering it ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Local health community Demonstrators

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Integrated Service Improvement Programme is working with strategic health authorities to support the change agenda.

  • News

    How Buckinghamshire is moving opthalmology closer to home

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    There is a lot of rhetoric about moving care closer to home but how easy is it and can quality be maintained?

  • Comment

    Laura Donnelly on primary care leaders

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    One argument is that new strategic health authority chief executives, keen to assert authority and be seen to do so, are indulging in an exercise otherwise known as 'don't think much of yours?'

  • Comment

    Sophia Christie on primary care

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The challenge of the last three years has been demand management. The focus for the next two years must be a considered challenge to activity attribution.'

  • Comment

    Speak out

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The IPPR's Joe Farrington-Douglas says private companies may be able to give valuable support to commissioners - but decisions about who gets what healthcare must remain public and accountable

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: the new SHA

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The maths behind real case management

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It seems a deceptively simple plan - if you can identify the relatively small number of patients likely to use acute services intensively, you can concentrate on simpler, cheaper and more effective preventative care. It was a promise first held out in work by Kaiser Pemanente in the US and ...

  • Comment

    Cliff Prior profile: 'The only thing you can't predict is where it will go'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In his new job heading a group of not-for-profit organisations, former Rethink chief executive Cliff Prior will have a key role in reshaping community services. But first he has to explain what it is all about

  • News

    Laura Donnelly on honesty and political risks

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Admitting that the NHS does not always offer a 'world-class service' is a high political risk'

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on powering reforms

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Almost everywhere you look, it is possible to see the NHS equivalent of electricity transmission losses

  • Comment

    A freedom framework will unite former foes

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    With the debate about freedom from political interference raging, strategic health authority chief executive Mark Britnell outlines his model for compromise and wonders what an NHS charter might contain

  • News

    Independent providers opened up to public scrutiny

    2006-12-20T00:00:00Z

    The Healthcare Commission has launched a new web service that provides patients and the public with information about performance in independent acute hospitals, mental health units and independent sector treatment centres.Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker, said: 'We want to make sure that patients have access to information about the ...

  • News

    Scottish patients urged to get a flu vaccination

    2006-12-20T00:00:00Z

    Scottish doctors have urged patients who are eligible but have not yet received the winter flu vaccination to contact their GP practice.Uptake rates for November are lower than ever before with just over half of Scots aged 65 or over receiving their vaccination.Only about a quarter of patients in the ...

  • News

    Five portions a day is not keeping obesity at bay

    2006-12-20T00:00:00Z

    An annual study published by the Information Centre for health and social care indicates that more people in England are eating the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.However one in five adults remain obese, the Health Survey for England 2005 reports.Reported daily consumption of five or more ...

  • News

    Liberal Democrats announce changes to shadow cabinet

    2006-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Norman Lamb has taken over as Liberal Democrat health spokesman. He replaces Steve Webb, who has become chair of the party's election manifesto team.Mr Lamb has been chief of staff to Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell since March. He said: 'I'm thrilled at the prospect of taking the health ...

  • News

    Survey: new year optimism outweighs financial fears

    2006-12-18T00:00:00Z

    A survey of 648 managers and leaders, published today by the Chartered Management Institute, shows that the mood of optimism in the sector remains despite fears over increasing business taxation and inflation.Key findings included that most managers in the health sector believe employment levels are unlikely to drop and the ...