All Primary care articles – Page 228
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News
Management coaching: project you
Isobel Gowan explains how she helped a client tackle a lack of self esteem and worth
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Comment
Maggie Rae on world class shopping
'Tired of shopping yet?' shouted a colleague. A gentle reference to my earnest attempts to improve our delivery of the world class commissioning standards.
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News
PCTs not ready to regulate choice, says Darzi adviser
Primary care trusts are not yet up to the job of policing choice under integrated healthcare models, a senior health adviser has warned delegates at the NHS Confederation conference.
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News
Mark Britnell announces changes to commissioning framework
The time it takes to use the framework for procuring external support for commissioners is to be slashed under plans unveiled at the NHS Confederation conference.
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News
Provider arms should scrutinise unprofitable services
Primary care trust provider arms must be prepared to question the future of unprofitable services in order to succeed as standalone organisations, the NHS Confederation conference has heard.
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News
Embrace commissioning, Britnell urges Confed delegates
Lord Darzi's next stage review will include exciting opportunities for commissioning staff, including freedoms based on those for foundation trusts, Department of Health director general of commissioning and system management Mark Britnell has told the NHS Confederation conference.
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News
Pilot scheme aims to integrate health and social care
An £11m pilot scheme creating systems to integrate health and social care assessment and planning is to be launched, delegates at the NHS Confederation annual conference have been told.
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News
Managers raise concerns over new local assessments
Primary care managers at the NHS Confederation annual conference have expressed concern about the lack of baseline data for some of the indicators they have chosen as part of the new comprehensive area assessment.
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News
Top-up review set to question core NHS principles
The 'founding principles of the NHS' are to be revisited after the government launched a review of the ban preventing patients making 'top-up' payments for drugs.
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News
Integrated care heightens provider monopolies risk
Primary care trusts will need to hold powerful monopoly providers to account if Lord Darzi gives integrated care systems the go-ahead.
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News
Capital's PCTs give Darzi the thumbs up
Polyclinics are likely to be up and running across London by April 2009 following primary care trusts' endorsement of proposals in Lord Darzi's Healthcare for London.
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Regions braced for change as plans put Darzi's vision on map
The strategic health authorities have set out their stalls but is there anything new in the proposals and are they likely to make regional variations in care inevitable? Alison Moore investigates
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Leader
BMA campaign trades on fear and ignorance
One has to admire the British Medical Association. Getting people to campaign against health service closures is easy, but it takes a particular talent to get the public to campaign against service openings.
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News
DH backs down on care record consent
The Department of Health is considering making it easier for patients to opt out of the electronic care record service, officials told a Commons committee this week.
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News
Annual health check: PCTs let standards fall
Less than a quarter of primary care trusts believe their services have met all government quality standards.
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News
Tougher indicators aim at fairer comparisons
Annual performance ratings are being beefed up for some NHS sectors to make fairer comparisons possible across the service.
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News
BMA delivers anti-polyclinic petition to No 10
The British Medical Association stepped up its opposition to polyclinics last week, when GPs delivered a 1.2-million-signature petition to 10 Downing Street and passed a series of no-confidence votes in the government and health minister Lord Darzi.
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HSJ Partners
The future focus for social care information
Demands and expectations on the social care system in England have changed significantly over the last decade. Our population has grown dramatically and its composition has evolved greatly in terms of age and ethnicity. In deciding how best to address these needs, providers need to consider how to offer a ...
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HSJ Partners
NHS Comparators wins national award
The NHS Comparators website scooped the Best use of Information award at the annual ASSIST awards.
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HSJ Partners
Information Centre alcohol report paints a worrying picture
Hospital admissions specifically related to alcohol have more than doubled in England since 1995, according to an NHS Information Centre report.