All Primary care articles – Page 20
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2021: Primary Care Innovation of the Year
WINNER: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG, Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, HUC and East of England Ambulance Service Trust: 111 Option 3 - Palliative Care Telephone Service
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2021: Primary Care Networks, GP or Community Provider of the Year
WINNER: Care Plus Group: Open Door Support for Underserved Communities in North East Lincolnshire
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Expert BriefingICSs could be forced to pool their budgets with councils
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsGovernment drops requirement to publish GP pay
The government has further delayed a requirement for publication of the NHS earnings of individual GPs, citing winter pressures, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Five go chief exec-ing
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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CommentTackling the forgotten backlogs caused by the pandemic
Susan Mitchell on the legacy of delayed care which is very much evident for people with dementia
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NewsNHS England reviewing remote GP appointments
NHS England has launched a review into remote consultations in primary care amid a row over GP appointments.
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NewsNHS England asks ICS leader to review ‘next steps’ for primary care
An integrated care system leader will review and set out how ICSs and primary care networks should go about improving out of hospital care, NHS England has announced.
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NewsDemand on 111 surges linked to ‘primary care challenges’
Yorkshire’s 111 services have experienced huge surges in demand during certain times of day, and leaders consider it “unlikely that the service will ever fully return to the pre-pandemic pattern”.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: A different picture
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsBMA chief steps down amid row over GP appointments
The chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee is to step down a year after being re-elected.
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NewsRevealed: ICSs which had the biggest rises in face-to-face GP appointments
There was an increase in the share of GP appointments conducted face to face in September, according to new NHS Digital figures.
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CommentDoing things differently to help GPs transform care and reduce demand
Matt Kearney on supporting primary care to do things differently and at scale as we emerge from the pandemic
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NewsOwnership of hundreds of primary care buildings is uncertain, national estates chief warns
A national estates chief says the government must find a new ownership model for hundreds of primary care centres that are currently run in partnership with the private sector.
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CommentMental health faces the toughest three years in living memory
Sean Duggan highlights the challenges faced by the current mental health services, emphasising on requiring immediate fixing through preventive support and public health funding
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: NHSE’s journey from cuddly to confrontation with GPs
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News‘Challenged’ primary care ‘must not’ deliver urgent teen jabs, says NHSE
GPs should only give 12 to 15 years olds the covid vaccine as a last resort,according to NHS England, under new plans to expand capacity across the age group while protecting the fragile primary care sector.
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NewsEthnicity removed from covid vaccine system in ‘retrograde step’
NHS England has stopped the collection of ethnicity data when people receive a coronavirus vaccine, seven months after introducing it, HSJ has learned.
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GPs who see less than 20pc of patients face-to-face barred from winter funding
GP practices recording less than 20 per cent of face-to-face GP appointments have been told this is “contrary to good clinical practice” and they will be barred from accessing a £250m winter fund.
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CommentPower is tilting back to Whitehall
The health and social care secretary is taking back control, says Richard Sloggett