All Primary care articles – Page 149
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HSJ KnowledgeThe HSJ and Capgemini Liberating Ideas Award Winners - Winning ideas are going places fast
The HSJ and Capgemini Liberating Ideas Award celebrates the best local innovations and set the challenge for national adoption. Read about the winners here
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NewsStroke care inconsistencies exposed
Stroke survivors in England receive patchy care depending on where they live, according to a new report.
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NewsSouth Central unveils PCT cluster plan
Nine primary care trusts in the south central region are to be amalgamated into three clusters, their strategic health authority has announced.
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NewsThe Healthcare Innovation EXPO
Healthcare Innovation Expo 2011 is the premier event for health and social care commissioners and providers. With over 150 seminars, 100 speakers and 250 exhibitors all featuring high impact innovations to improve patient care and productivity, this is your must attend event of the year.
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NewsPCT restricts doctors from making 'expensive, non-urgent referrals' to London providers
A primary care trust has told clinicians it must approve any referrals to London trusts because of the extra expense involved.
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NewsReport: chronic pain sufferers get poor advice
The government must take action to ease the suffering of people with long-term pain, according to a report from the Patients Association.
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NewsHopes for 'universal' flu vaccine
Patients who had swine flu last year developed protective antibodies that could be used to make a jab to guard against most kinds of influenza, US scientists have said.
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NewsPM defiant over flu jab shortage
David Cameron has warned that lessons must be learned from Britain’s recent flu vaccine shortage as the country faces “significant outbreaks” for years to come.
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HSJ Local
NHS Derby City plans 8 per cent reduction to provider contracts
FINANCE: Financial modelling by NHS Derby City has identified a need to reduce 2011-12 contract values by 8 per cent on average across all providers, in order to transfer financial sustainability to GP commissioners from 2012-13.
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NewsDavid Colin-Thomé retires
National clinical director for primary care David Colin-Thomé has retired, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS 24 fields 50,000 calls in four days
Scotland’s health helpline recorded a sharp increase in the calls it received over the new year holiday with around 10,000 more people phoning the service for advice than last year.
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NewsBMA leadership defends its response to reforms
The British Medical Association leadership has defended its engagement with the government’s health reforms after criticism from some members, but says it will be “stepping up” its lobbying.
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CommentGPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying
Giving GPs freedom to innovate while protecting patients will be a difficult balance
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to put 'nudge' principles to work in the health service
The power of nudge: how applying nudge principles could change healthcare commissioning management
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NewsRush to market cancer test breakthrough
An experimental blood test that can spot a single cancer cell among a billion healthy ones has taken a step closer to being brought to market.
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NewsNHS 'wastes billions' on procurement
More than £1bn of taxpayers’ money a year is being wasted by NHS managers who spend vastly differing amounts on the same supplies, the head of a government-backed healthcare efficiency drive has claimed.
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CommentTim Riley on GP attitudes to commissioning consortia
The reservations about the establishment of commissioning consortia are not uniformly expressed among all GP colleagues.
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NewsFlu death toll reaches 27
A total of 27 people have died from influenza this winter, including nine children, latest official figures show.
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News
Five trusts now predicting year-end deficits
Four primary care trusts and one hospital trust who were predicting year-end surpluses in the first quarter of 2010-11 are now predicting deficits.
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NewsNorfolk community provider gets new chair
The community health services provider for Norfolk has appointed a new chair.