All Primary care articles – Page 205
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HSJ Knowledge
Safer Care: improving general practice safety
As the Safer Care programme extends its work into primary care, general practices have been piloting a global trigger tool designed to help GPs identify, measure and act on patient safety warning signs more quickly and systematically
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News
Budget 2009: NHS privatisation should be victim of savings, says union
The largest trade union in the country has said government efficiency savings should be targeted at the “costly, creeping privatisation” of the NHS.
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NewsBudget 2009: 'PCT allocations safe'
The Department of Health will not need to revisit the allocations it has set for primary care trusts in 2010-11, HSJ has been told.
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News
Local government to make £600m extra efficiency savings
Local government has been asked to provide an extra £600m in efficiency savings next year.
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News
DH team launched to reduce infant deaths
The Department of Health has launched a national support team to reduce differences in infant mortality rates in the face of a looming deadline.
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News
UK government warns over EU health plans
Patients should not be able to charge the NHS for hospital services they receive abroad without first seeking permission from their primary care trust, the government has said.
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News
Anger over GP quality decision
The Department of Health has angered senior figures in primary care by appointing external consultants McKinsey to advise a panel of experts on how to measure GP quality.
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CommentThe credit crunch and public health
The UK economy officially entered recession in January with unemployment levels rapidly climbing to levels not seen since 1997. What no one can predict is where the bottom of this economic crisis resides and exactly what it will mean for public health, writes Andrew Jones
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News
Hospital trust opens GP centre
A hospital trust in Warwickshire has become the first to take over the running of a GP-led health centre.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow PCTs can involve the public in funding decisions
The public may still be reticent about getting involved in decision making about drug and treatment funding but PCTs are expected to engage them. Lynne Greenwood reports
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NewsGP quality: the final frontier for inspectors
So far general practice has remained impervious to the expanding remit of the inspectors. This week the King’s Fund revealed proposals for a new GP quality inquiry that has even won backing from the profession. Helen Mooney reports
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News
Minor injuries unit closes through lack of use
A weekend minor injuries clinic intended to reduce admissions at an under-pressure accident and emergency department has shut because too few patients used it.
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NewsGP quality bonuses do not reflect patient satisfaction
Despite uniformly high scores in the quality and outcomes framework bonus scheme, GPs in some areas are receiving 63 per cent more complaints from patients than others.
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News
PCTs win reconfiguration legal battle
A planned judicial review into the reconfiguration of maternity services at Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been rejected by a High Court judge.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS turns to marketing to change public health attitudes
Taking lessons from commercial advertising, PCTs can use social marketing to help get health messages across effectively to their local populations. By Daloni Carlisle
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NewsAcute overspending raises questions over PCT plans
Primary care trusts have overspent against acute contracts by hundreds of millions of pounds, raising questions over the success of efforts to deliver care more cheaply in the community.
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Leader
Care is still a long way from the community
This week’s HSJ revelation of the huge scale of primary care trusts’ overspend on acute care exposes the distance between the desire to move more care into the community and delivering it.
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News
Primary care trust seeks to team up with social services
Blackburn with Darwen primary care trust has launched a bid to join forces with its local council.
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CommentDavid Peat on PCT provider arms
The proposed division of primary care trusts’ provider and commissioner arms reminds me of the old legal concept of “one roof with separate rooms”.
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News
Economic downturn forces many PCTs to rewrite funding forecasts
Primary care trusts are having to redraft their five year strategic plans because of out of date assumptions about funding in 2011-12.