All Primary care articles – Page 207
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Practice based commissioning on the up
Support for the policy of practice-based commissioning continues to grow slowly but steadily, the Department of Health has claimed.
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NewsLondon names 'inner cabinet' PCT chiefs
NHS London has named the six primary care trust chief executives who will lead commissioning and performance management of hospital services for the whole city.
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LeaderNo excuses in this new era of regulation
With the Care Quality Commission going live next Wednesday, the Healthcare Commission has published a swathe of reports before its demise.
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CommentNigel Edwards on winter pressures in the NHS
The NHS has learned much from the demand surges of other winters. But while effective measures are in place, costs are significant and challenges for managers still persist
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CommunityMedia Watch: credit crunch scapegoat
Now bank chiefs have been sufficiently humiliated in the press, the media’s attention seems to be turning to a new credit crunch scapegoat: NHS managers.
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PCTs say incentives policy fails local commissioners
Primary care trusts have criticised the Department of Health for backing away from plans to allow them to set local incentives in the national GPs’ bonus schemes.
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HSJ KnowledgeTeenage pregnancy: mothers tide
A 10 year strategy has seen a reversal of the once surging rate of teenage pregnancy in many areas - but in others the numbers of teens choosing to have a baby remain alarming
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NHS financial forecast worsens
The NHS has been issued with stark new estimates of the impact the recession will have on its finances.
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Local LIFT projects pick up speed as successful bidders named
Successful bidders for the Express local improvement finance trust framework have been named by the Department of Health.
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Lift Awards 2009 winners announced
Renova Developments has won the award for Lift Area of the Year in this year’s Lift Awards.
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Comment
Daphne Austin on NHS exceptional funding decisions
One aspect of priority setting that presents difficulties is funding requests for individual patients, particularly those based on alleged “exceptionality”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Alcohol screening at pharmacies boosts public health
Local pharmacy staff on the Wirral tactfully help people think about how much alcohol they drink, reports Lynne Greenwood
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NewsPractice based commissioning: give GPs control or risk world class status
Primary care trusts will be restricted to the lowest score in world class commissioning unless they can prove they are supporting practice based commissioning.
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Scottish BMA leader demands review of extended opening hours
The British Medical Association's lead Scottish GP has demanded a review of policy on extending GP opening hours in Scotland.
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Leader
Patient safety: the first step is saying you have a problem
One of the more delicate steps in encouraging a patient safety culture was taken last week, with the first trust by trust breakdown of safety incident reporting.
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A new plan for cardiac and vascular disease
Cardiac and vascular disease urgently needs a strategy that goes further and wider than the current framework and improves access to high quality services for far more people.
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Leader
NHS managers' pay turns red tops green with envy
Salary envy is coming to the NHS. As the recession decimates jobs, pension pots and pay rises in the private sector, newspapers are turning their cynical fire on the pay and perks of public sector managers.
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Deadline falls on drawn out tariff wrangling
Commissioners and providers were still wrangling over the controversial HRG4 tariff just days before the 13 March deadline to complete negotiations expired.
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Exclusive: Data reveals wide variation in patient safety reporting
Trusts where patient safety incidents are most likely to cause deaths, and those with the highest and lowest reporting rates, are revealed for the first time in an exclusive HSJ analysis.
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NHS job losses set to continue
The director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory has warned that health service redundancies are likely to continue at their current rate of around 54 a month.