Primary Care – Page 95
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CommentPharmacies can ease the pressure on urgent care
Pharmacists deserve a voice in NHS decision making
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NewsMonitor suggests changing primary care payment
The health sector regulator has suggested primary care payment mechanisms and commissioning responsibilities should be reorganised, to improve contracting of walk-in centres.
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NewsBMA backs GP networks but rejects seven-day working 'mantra'
The chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee has called for practices to “form network arrangements” and share staff to provide extended opening services and a “stronger community-based provision of care”.
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NewsA&E units 'facing worst winter yet'
Accident and emergency departments in the NHS are facing what may be “our worst winter yet” due to a combination of soaring demand, a shortage of doctors and “toxic” overcrowding on hospital wards, a senior consultant has warned.
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NewsGP practices 'need IT overhaul'
Some GP practices are “stuck in the 1990s” because of outdated technology, a report has found.
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NewsReport urges shift in pharmacy role
Soaring demand for GP and emergency services could be reduced if there is a “radical shift” in the role of pharmacists, a new report claims.
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NewsPrimary care contracting faces cuts and possible outsourcing
NHS England’s primary care contract managers will be reorganised and reduced by September next year, with the services potentially being outsourced.
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News'Large variations' in place of death
There are “large variations” across England in the proportion of people who die at hospital or in their own homes, figures show.
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NewsCancer survival rate highlighted
Cancer patients living in the most deprived parts of England are a third less likely to be alive five to 10 years after diagnosis than those in the most affluent areas.
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Exclusive: Wellbeing boards must avoid becoming 'a side show'
More than three quarters of health and wellbeing boards believe they have little influence over NHS England, according to a major study shared exclusively with HSJ and its sister title Local Government Chronicle.
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NewsGP and hospital records to be ‘linked’ by June
The flagship patient data service, care.data, will be able to “link” data from patients’ GP records to their hospital records by June next year, NHS England has announced.
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HSJ KnowledgeClare Gerada: 'The Health Act made me ill'
The outgoing and outspoken RCGP chair reflects on her tenure
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LeaderCCGs deserve the chance to prove their worth
There are signs the new commissioning system has promise
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NewsMonitor asked to consider hostility to new GP providers
New primary care providers are being stifled by GP commissioner hostility, and the inability of existing practices to sell their businesses, the health sector regulator has been told.
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NewsDrugs recalled over plant problems
Drugs made for leading firms including Superdrug are being recalled after inspectors found problems with manufacturing at an Indian plant.
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NewsCQC will 'campaign for more GPs and longer consultations'
The Care Quality Commission will “campaign” for longer consultations and greater increases in the GP workforce, its professional adviser on primary care has said.
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NewsPlaid Cymru demands paperless health service
Paper records for hospital patients should be scrapped and replaced with iPads, Plaid Cymru’s health spokeswoman has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeEncourage GPs to take ownership of their CCG
The new bodies must have strong relationships