All Primary care articles – Page 226
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Alyson Morley on the push for polyclinics
Do polyclinics spell the end of the patient-doctor relationship in favour of faceless big business intrusion into health services? Or are they the must-have health facility of the future?
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Simon Fradd on Darzi vs the GPs
Sixty years ago, the medical profession took on Nye Bevan and lost - are we about to do the same thing again?
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Data collection: Big Brother isn't watching you
Health information has not kept pace with population change. Ruth Thorlby and Veena Raleigh look at efforts to improve collection
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Andrew Jones on topping up NHS care
The government's announcement that it plans to review co-payments and whether they should be allowed in the NHS surprised me because it asks the wrong question.
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Meldrum urges doctors to take leading role in reform
Doctors must 'roll up their sleeves' and get involved in Lord Darzi's healthcare reforms or risk being marginalised, irrelevant and ignored, according to the British Medical Association chairman.
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Shift in IT policy as trusts told they can develop their own system
The Department of Health has signalled a shift in the national programme for IT that will see it supporting NHS organisations that want to develop their own systems.
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HSJ KnowledgeMaking sense of child disability
How many disabled children are there in England? This sounds a relatively straightforward question. Service improvements for children with disability are a government priority and require a robust evidence base.
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Move sex health provision to community says charity
The Terrence Higgins Trust has called on primary care trusts to apply Lord Darzi's access reforms to sexual health services to improve an unacceptably outmoded system.
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CBI warning on stop-start procurement projects
Primary care trusts that drag out procurements are hiking up the cost of schemes to taxpayers, the Confederation of British Industry has warned.
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PCTs will have veto on Darzi integrated care pilots
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts will be expected to take a lead role in setting up and supporting integrated care pilots.
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Cancer firm expects NHS to fall short
A private company has invested around £30m in three new private cancer centres, underlining its belief that the NHS will fail to meet the rising demand for cancer treatments.
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Darzi calls for skills to tackle challenge of lifestyle diseases
Primary and community care organisations must strengthen their skills and infrastructure to tackle 'lifestyle diseases' such as obesity, Lord Darzi told an HSJ conference this week.
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GPs open up to extended access target
Almost a quarter of primary care trust areas have now hit the Department of Health's target to extend GP opening hours, latest figures reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
Aligning health and local government incentives
In the North West, health services and local government work in perfect alignment. What is the secret of their success?
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HSJ Knowledge
The next steps in reducing inequality
The government is determined to reduce health inequalities by 2010, but this requires a concerted effort from all local agencies in the human workshop.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mainstreaming health inequalities in action
Two senior executives discuss putting healthcare at the centre of local policy.
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HSJ Knowledge
A look inside a care trust plus
North East Lincolnshire is home to England's first care trust plus. Stuart Shepherd spoke to its ambitious - and entirely local - leader
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HSJ Knowledge
David Peat on 60 years with the NHS
Call it a fortuitous coincidence if you will, but the NHS and I share the same birthday. Not to the day, but near enough.
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HSJ Knowledge
Making progress on infant mortality
High infant mortality rates in disadvantaged groups make the latest inequalities targets tough to hit. But there has been some progress in this area, as Andy Cowper found out.
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HSJ Knowledge
Lessons in success: delivering on health inequalities
Three leaders who are tackling inequalities in deprived areas explain why their initiatives are working