Primary Care – Page 57
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NewsPrivate firm beats trust to controversial £55m contract
A controversial £55m contract for elective treatment has been given to a private provider, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLarge scale general practice not linked to quality, says chief inspector
Scaled up general practice does not necessarily lead to better quality of care, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector for GPs has said.
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NewsSpending on GPs rose by more than 3 per cent last year
NHS spending on general practice rose by more than 3 per cent in real terms over 2016-17 compared to the previous year, new data shows.
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NewsHEE expects to beat record GP recruitment numbers
Health Education England is “on track” to exceed last year’s record GP trainee recruitment, a senior official has told HSJ.
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NewsVanguard GP provider expands into fifth STP patch
One of the largest scale GP providers in England has expanded in to a fifth sustainability and transformation partnership footprint.
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NewsSimon Stevens: Cut DTOCs to prepare for possible flu outbreak
Freeing up delayed transfer of care beds will be vital to ensuring the NHS has enough capacity to manage winter pressures and a possible flu outbreak, Simon Stevens has warned.
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HSJ LocalTrust, private providers and GPs form alliance
A community trust in Yorkshire is setting up an alliance with local GPs and two private primary care providers to deliver accident and emergency streaming services.
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HSJ LocalCCG may be charged VAT on national vanguard funds
Commissioners leading a vanguard site may have to pay VAT charges on transformation funding from NHS England because their lead provider is a GP federation.
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NewsGPs ordered to give appointment data to national bodies as winter looms
NHS England has ordered the national collection of future GP appointment data for the first time, as part of its preparations for looming winter pressures.
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CCGs to stunt GP spending growth in national savings drive
Commissioners in Cheshire are set to cut the growth in their primary care budgets in response to the national capped expenditure process, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsSouthern Health may lose community services as CCGs prepare to procure
Southern Health Foundation Trust has confirmed it is considering divesting itself of its community services provision – which accounts for a third of its turnover – ahead of a procurement for a new integrated model of care.
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NewsCCG and ICO probe pharmacy firm's access to patient details
A clinical commissioning group and the Information Commissioner are looking into concerns raised by a patient that a major online pharmacy has gained access to patients’ details to send out marketing material.
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NewsNHS England appoints new national director
NHS England has chosen a successor to Rosamond Roughton, national director for primary care delivery, who announced her departure earlier this year.
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NewsNHS England 'unethical' to propose withdrawing life changing drug
NHS England has been accused of being “totally unethical” after proposing to stop paying for a thyroid drug that is the “difference between living properly and not doing so” for patients.
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CommentSuccessful new care models will need significant management support
Whatever you call them, new care models all face similar tough challenges. So how likely are they to succeed?
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NewsExclusive: Flagship primary care hubs lack funds
Areas developing a “scale” primary care model, previously praised by Simon Stevens, lack the resources to fully evaluate their models and have yet to work out how they will meet desired outcomes, new research has found.
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HSJ Local
Leading vanguard will not procure contract as it 'would take longer'
One of the most advanced national vanguard projects has decided to form a multispecialty community provider through an alliance agreement rather than go out to procurement as it “would take longer”.
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HSJ Local'Serious implications' as CCG ordered to pay full tariff rate to private provider
A CCG must pay an unexpected bill likely to run to millions of pounds, after a legal judgement that it had been wrongly undercutting tariff rates to an independent provider for three years.
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NewsExclusive: Naylor 'delighted' at £3.3bn private investment offer
Sir Robert Naylor has said he is “delighted” at an offer from three private property firms to invest more than £3.3bn in new NHS primary care facilities.
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NewsPrimary care underspend helps counter trust deficits
NHS England and local commissioners underspent on their primary care budgets by almost £200m in 2016-17, which helped offset the £791m deficit in the provider sector, new figures reveal.