Primary Care – Page 308
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Unsuccessful candidates for PCT chairs attack 'flawed' selection criteria and appointment process
The national programme to appoint new chairs to all primary care trusts has been criticised as biased, uninformed and hurtful by a number of rejected candidates.
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Appointments chief apologises to candidate accused of ignoring public
A primary care trust chair who resigned over his treatment during the selection process has received an apology from the NHS Appointments Commission.
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Dozens of PCT posts still unfilled
With just three weeks to go before the new primary care trusts officially take over, 53 are without a chair and no non-executive directors have been appointed.
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Union attacks selection process for top PCT posts as 'scandalous'
Strategic health authorities have been urged to give unsuccessful primary care trust chief executives 'transparent and appropriate' feedback on the reasons they have failed to secure a top job in the newly reconfigured organisations.
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PCTs told to appoint professional executive committees
Primary care trusts have been told to set up new professional executive committees, although it is consulting on a new 'form and function' being introduced next April.
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GP contract leads to sharp increase in A&E attendance
Hospital accident and emergency departments are facing increased demand as a result of the changes to the GP contract introduced two years ago, according to a study.
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Sustainable Communities Awards expanded
HSJ's Sustainable Communities Awards, which recognise public sector achievement in the field, has grown. With 11 categories for 2007 - three more than last year - primary care trusts, local authorities, and other local partners will have a chance to be honoured for their role in delivery of sustainable communities.
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A proactive approach to the care home population
Admissions management: Leeds West primary care trust
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Cutting unplanned emergency admissions
To improve and provide personalised care for patients with long-term, complex conditions and to provide appropriate patient treatment pathways for them, Dudley Beacon and Castle primary care trust recruited three assertive case managers and one nurse consultant.
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Comment: Greater Manchester's health inequality woes resonate widely
'The Audit Commission report makes clear that reconfiguration 'is damaging the potential for more successful joint developments,' creating rifts and instability.'
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Exclusive: Audit Commission calls for 'radical action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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Court orders drug rethink
A primary care trust has been ordered to review its decision not fund treatment with a cancer drug.
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Rejected PCT leaders told to apply for less senior jobs
Primary care trust chief executives not selected for jobs running their successor organisations are being denied redundancy and told to apply for less senior positions, according to union Managers in Partnership.
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New skills for new era of nursing
Nurses will be expected to work more flexibly and gain increased 'entrepreneurial skills' under an NHS plan to modernise their careers.
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Competition hots up for 2006 HSJ Awards
Primary care trusts in Croydon and Blackpool dominate the shortlist in this year's HSJ Awards, with seven nominations between them.
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Call for more staff to meet intervention needs
Union Amicus has questioned how health visitors can take extra responsibilities to identify babies and young children at risk of future anti-social behaviour when they are facing job cuts and recruitment freezes.
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PCTs ahead on practice-based commissioning
Primary care trusts are ahead of schedule for universal coverage of practice-based commissioning, with 173 PCTs classified as introducing PBC at the end of July.
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Drive to increase Asian vitamin intake
Asian children should be given vitamin D from birth to two years to halt the re-emergence of a deficiency in the UK, according to doctors.
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New NICE guidance on obesity
The latest work programme for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will include analysis on how to tackle growing obesity levels.
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Clinicians launch community ENT to fend off independent giants
A group of 150 GPs, practice nurses and managers have set up a social enterprise venture in an attempt to protect NHS services from being 'picked off' by the independent sector.