All Primary care articles – Page 117
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HSJ KnowledgeHow doctor-patient phone calls can cut unnecessary emergency care attendances
When GPs phone back patients who want to book an appointment, many often accept they do not need to visit the surgery or to go to A&E after all. Harry Longman explains the benefits this level of doctor access offers.
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HSJ KnowledgeLiberating Ideas: the award-winning projects that could truly liberate the NHS
Which of the Liberating Ideas Award 2011 winners’ projects has the greatest potential to be adopted by the rest of the NHS? Alison Moore watched the final judging session.
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NewsSight loss patients 'need more help'
Staff at clinics in Wales for patients suffering from sensory loss could do more to help visitors, a group of experts claims.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy AQP can drive real benefits in primary and secondary care
Any Qualified Provider has proved to be a controversial policy with those working in the health service, but, argue Dr Walter Serino, Professor Sam Lingam and Richard Banyard, AQP has potential to be far more friend than foe.
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NewsPCT and SHA staff set to learn job decisions
The fate of tens of thousands of NHS staff may become clearer during the next few weeks, with large redundancy bills still a risk for some organisations, HSJ has been told.
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NewsClinical commissioning behind schedule and risking 'suspended animation'
Clinical commissioning is behind schedule in many areas with the transfer of staff from primary care trusts stalled and just over a year remaining before the NHS’s structural overhaul is supposed to be complete.
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NewsNHS Confederation home care call backed
The NHS Confederation’s call to prioritise treating people in their home rather than hospital has been backed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
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NewsGovernment unveils extra £150m for home care
The government has announced an extra £150m for patients to receive care at home rather than in hospital.
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News'Failing' social care system putting older people at risk
England’s “failing” social care system is leaving 800,000 elderly people “lonely, isolated and at risk”, say experts who have today urged the government and the Labour party to begin social care reform.
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NewsSocial care 'not fit for purpose'
The social care system has been branded “not fit for purpose” after figures revealed elderly people are paying up to £7,000 a year for home care services.
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NewsSexual health services should offer alcohol advice
GP commissioners and councils should in future ensure sexual health services include interventions targeted at cutting alcohol consumption among young people, according to a report published today.
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NewsField's Future Forum report to call for GPs to move into 'bigger organisations'
NHS Future Forum chair Steve Field has called for GPs to work in “federations or in bigger organisations”, and to focus on integration of services, ahead of the publication of the review group’s advice to the government.
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NewsPCT and SHA staff to be told their 'expected destination' on 31 January
All primary care trust and strategic health authority staff should receive a personal letter telling them “the expected destination (or destinations) of their current function” in the new commissioning system, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsBMA: GPs are being 'bullied' to meet April 2013 commissioning deadline
GPs in some areas are being told to form clinical commissioning groups in time to take over budgets by April 2013, even when they don’t want to, the British Medical Association GPs committee has said.
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NewsClinical commissioning group boards should have tenure and size limits
A model constitution for clinical commissioning groups has recommended board members serve no longer than four years at a time, and boards should be limited to 12 people.
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GP contracts barrier to Spanish care model
GP contracts would make it “difficult, if not impossible” to introduce a cost saving Spanish integrated care model in the UK, a new report by the NHS Confederation has concluded.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy shifting DVT management into primary care can improve clinical outcomes
DVT can be clinically very difficult to diagnose but early recognition and appropriate treatment can improve clinical outcomes.
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NewsLeading integrated care provider requests financial help
One of the NHS’s leading integrated care providers has sought financial help from its strategic health authority cluster after reporting a “precarious” cashflow position.
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NewsPCTs to receive flat 2.8pc increase next year
Primary care trusts will receive the same allocation in 2012-13 as this year, plus an across the board 2.8 per cent increase, the Department of Health has announced.
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News24,000 diabetes deaths 'preventable', report claims
Up to 24,000 patients with diabetes are dying unnecessarily every year, according to a new report.