All Primary care articles – Page 116
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NewsIdeas to improve quality and safety in care homes sought
Nurses are being asked for ideas on how to improve patient care and working conditions in care homes, as part of a new programme of work by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
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NewsCCG performance could be measured against 120 indicators
Clinical commissioning groups could be judged against up to 120 performance measures, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has revealed today.
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NewsLIFT companies seek NHS Property Services links
Companies set up under a public-private partnership scheme are positioning themselves to become key partners to NHS Property Services, the firm formed to manage health service assets.
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NewsCompetition panel highlights GP conflict concern
A primary care trust has been criticised by the Cooperation and Competition Panel for giving GPs leading roles in a decision to close a rival primary care centre.
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NewsLetters on PCT and SHA staff transfers sent today
Primary care trust and strategic health authority staff across England are today being sent letters explaining where their function is to be transferred to in the restructured NHS.
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News'Be clear' bowel cancer campaign launched by government
A government campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the symptoms of bowel cancer.
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Consultant support sought for CCG authorisation process
The NHS Commissioning Board will need external support, likely to come from management consultancies, to help authorise clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsPCT staff letters to omit passage on clarity
Official letters to be sent to primary care trust staff about the future of their jobs this month have undergone a change in wording, with passages discussing an ongoing lack of clarity removed from the text.
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Risks facing the commissioning board: in its own words
Key details of the NHS Commissioning Board’s design have been revealed in a new document published today.
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NewsFine hospitals restricting bowel cancer care, charity says
Hospitals that fail to offer bowel cancer patients a full range of appropriate treatments should be fined, a charity has said.
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CommentCommissioning by any other name: will 'clinical' become 'world class'?
Linear progress, zig-zagging or going round in circles? Calum Paton asks whether the Health Bill’s ideal of clinical commissioning can really deliver an improved era of healthcare after the years of false starts and rebadging.
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CCG budget allocations delayed until February
The release of the first set of “shadow budgets” for clinical commissioning groups has been put back to February, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsManagers encouraged to blow whistle on colleagues in draft plans to regulate NHS leaders
NHS leaders must blow the whistle on colleagues if necessary, understand the “limitations” of their roles and openly explain budget decisions, under draft standards to regulate the profession.
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One in five deaths now 'in own home'
More than a fifth of people now die in their own homes, while the overall trend for deaths at home is rising, research suggests.
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HSJ KnowledgeFive integral steps to support commissioning headache services
A framework to support commissioning headache services that champions intermittent care headache clinics led by a GP with a special interest in headache offers important benefits to both patients and commissioners, says Dr David Kernick.
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Comment'Local healthcare cannot be delivered by giant commissioning bodies'
The key to healthcare delivery models lies within natural communities – not in bloated commissioning organisations, says Charles Alessi.
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NewsExclusive: national company to take over PCT estate
A new national property company is to be set up by the government to manage the primary care trust estate, HSJ understands.
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NewsNew Medicine Service guidance released
New guidance has been published showing how the New Medicine Service and post discharge Medicines Use Reviews can be used to provide a seamless care pathway for patients who transfer from hospital to the community setting.
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NewsExclusive: only half of CCGs will be ready - GP commissioning champion
Only half of clinical commissioning groups will be given full permission to take on budgets by April 2013 – creating a two-tier NHS – one of the most senior leaders of the movement has predicted.
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NewsHospitals spending less than £3 on patient meals
NHS hospitals are spending as little as £2.57 to feed and water patients each day - or 86 pence a meal, new figures reveal today.