All Primary care articles – Page 105
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical commissioners can help shape primary care
CCGs can enhance general practice’s future if it lets them
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NewsExclusive: National chief GP appointed by commissioning board
The NHS Commissioning Board had appointed a deputy medical director for primary care, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Government confirms CCG quality premium rules
Legal regulations are expected to confirm shortly that the clinical commissioning group quality premium bonus can be paid to individual GP practices but must “improve services for patients”, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeAdded value in student nurse placements
A project for undergraduates has helped nurture integrated working
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CommentPatients and staff can both promote innovation
Pushing ideas through the NHS from the top hasn’t worked
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HSJ KnowledgeHSJ Awards winners reveal their secrets of service change
Winners discuss their sustainable strategies
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HSJ KnowledgeThe advantages of community eyecare pathways
Eye health services that save money and add value for patients
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News
Government highlights new language control for doctors
Foreign doctors who want to work for the NHS in England will have to prove they can speak English well enough to treat patients, the government has said.
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NewsGP survey reiterates concerns about contract
More than a quarter of GPs believe that proposed changes to their contracts will mean they have to restrict access to patients, a poll suggests.
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BlogsHarkness Fellows: expect the unexpected
In the first blog from the 2012-13 Harkness Fellows, Julia Murphy reflects on the first few months of her fellowship and her impressions of the US healthcare system
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat needs to happen to PCTs' IT assets
Guidance for sorting out the complexities of IT contracts before April
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News‘High risk’ pathology restructure delayed by a year
The introduction of a controversial reconfiguration of pathology services in the east of England has been delayed by a year, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeHSJ/CHKS interactive prescribing data tools
The tools enable you to compare prescribing rates and costs
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to spot future patients
A risk stratification tool is helping GPs to identify where early intervention would benefit patients
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HSJ KnowledgeInformation overload: CCGs and data innovation
Clinicians can use a variety of new data to deliver real change
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HSJ KnowledgeCompetition is all around us – so why fight it?
Competition and integration can co-exist to provide a seamless health service
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CommentWe urgently need to reimagine healthcare
We need the service to deliver health and social care
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NewsCentral health database challenged
Privacy campaigners and medical groups have questioned a move that will see GPs hand over patient information to a central information bank.
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NewsAt least 10 PCTs to be bailed out by peers in 2012-13
At least 10 primary care trusts would face finishing 2012-13 in the red without loans or bailouts from their neighbouring commissioners, HSJ research has found.
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News
Lamb calls for out-of-hours primary care reform
Health minister Norman Lamb has said new arrangements for out-of-hours primary care could be needed to help cut rising demand for emergency services.