Primary Care – Page 301

  • News

    Primary care trusts told to fill Atos gap

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    NHS providers could struggle to fill the gap left by the collapse of a £257m diagnostics contract.

  • News

    Surgical spirit soars in defence of the clinician

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Royal College of Surgeons president Bernie Ribeiro is on a mission to stand up for education and to set up a national audit of clinical outcomes to convince commissioners of ISTCS' shortcomings

  • Comment

    Time to tear ourselves away from paper

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Trusts' reluctance to store patient records electronically is a national scandal which is draining resources, harming patient care and limiting the potential of historical archives, argues Capita's Robert McIndoe

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Data Briefing: Did the extra money go on new staff?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A new analysis of the reason for and distribution of NHS deficits published by the Department of Health, Explaining NHS Deficits, contains an interesting analysis of what the extra funding from 2000-04 was spent on. The answer, apparently, is that nearly 80 per cent was consumed by the costs of ...

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on the lost art of analysis

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Explaining NHS Deficits detonates many of the most powerful urban myths surrounding the NHS'.

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: Tory policy

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executive

  • Brown's equality drive must begin at birth
    Comment

    Brown's equality drive must begin at birth

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    More low-weight babies are born in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. This should be at the front of the next prime minister’s mind as he strives to give every child an equal chance, says Louise Bamfield

  • Comment

    Noel Plumridge on the non-exec conundrum

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'How can one challenge yet remain part of the team? That's the non-executive dilemma'

  • Comment

    Pick-and-mix NHS will serve all customers

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Having the right people involved in the right discussions is the key to keeping the NHS in check, says Anna Coote, while Jessica Crowe argues for a wide form of accountability that leaves no voice unheard

  • News

    Datamonitor: steady progress for acute productivity

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has published the Q3 2006-07 Better Care, Better Value indicators. As the indicators have been published for the first time on the basis of the 152 new primary care trusts (previous quarters reported on the 303 PCTs that existed until Q2 end) the ...

  • Comment

    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on going back to the floor

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    There's often no holding back. I got short shrift once from the cardiac nurses over agency staff policy.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'

  • HSJ Knowledge

    International development: 'Go and tell people what it's like here'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In the midst of grinding poverty, Malawi's tiny nursing workforce is fighting to meet the country's healthcare needs. Emma Dent reports

  • News

    PBC guidance for boards

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Audit Commission has for the first time told primary care trust board members how they can help ensure that practice-based commissioning is a success.

  • News

    Mixed picture on PBC uptake

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    More than 40 per cent of GP practices have begun to adopt practice-based commissioning, according to government figures published today.

  • News

    BMA urges members to petition on slow PBC implementation

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts that are not implementing practice-based commissioning can expect to receive a letter from GPs asking them to take action.

  • News

    Hewitt prioritises PBC after GPs and managers dismiss impact

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has promised that support for practice-based commissioning will be an 'absolute priority' for the NHS over the next year.

  • News

    Simon Stevens on the great pbc debate

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    PBC is desirable but sadly not workable as a universal mechanism. It wasn't in the 1990s, and it isn't now

  • 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 ...