All Primary care articles – Page 231
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Virgin Healthcare unveils GP contract details
Virgin Healthcare has revealed detailed plans for its new GP services, which will involve leaving family doctors on standard contracts but taking control of their non-clinical work.
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Suppliers could challenge PCTs under European rules
An EU directive due to be implemented in the UK next year could leave primary care trust contracts open to challenge through the courts.
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Barbara Young warns on cash for GP regulation
The newly appointed Care Quality Commission chair has revealed she is not convinced by government proposals to regulate GPs.Baroness Young told HSJ she agreed the Health and Social Care Bill should allow for some primary care services to be absorbed into the main regulatory regime.
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HSJ Knowledge
Self-harm services: help with the pain
An award-winning service earns the confidence of people who self-harm with empathetic care. Stuart Shepherd reports on how it is improving the lives of vulnerable people
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Hilary Thomas on changing healthcare
The past year has been one of huge transition for me, professionally and personally. I have phased out seeing patients and crossed to the dark side, which has been a stimulating and steep learning curve.
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Darzi tells PCTs to involve public at each stage of process
Primary care trusts will be expected to take the lead in developing proposals for local service redesign and ensuring patient and public involvement at all stages under Lord Darzi's proposals.
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Brown rethinks social care policy
Prime minister Gordon Brown has suggested an insurance model may not be a reliable way to fund future social care provision.
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National GP assessment to aid choice
Primary care trusts will be able to assess GP practice performance against a national standard for the first time under a new primary medical care provider accreditation scheme
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Ronny Flynn on long-term illness and poverty
A review of long-term illness, poverty and ethnicity recently published by the Race Equality Foundation identifies the complex, disruptive effects of illness on families and raises a number of concerns.
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HSJ Partners
Healthy weight management
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: a cross-government strategy for England was launched in February. In the same month, NHS North West launched the North West framework, which sets out guidelines on helping children and families achieve a healthy weight.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving staff communication
Setting up an online forum is an easy, inexpensive way to encourage better communication among healthcare staff, especially those working different shifts. John Harrison explains
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Career Path: leading change in the NHS
Michael Scott's CV reads like a chronology of NHS reforms. So it is not surprising that his next move is into a London PCT. Here, he explains how his career took shape
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David Peat on promoting healthy lifestyles
We all know we should eat less, exercise more, stop smoking and drink less alcohol. But we all ask: where is the fun in that?
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HSJ Knowledge
Maggie Rae on the NHS's 60th anniversary
Have you started on your plans to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS? Don't leave it to the great and good to celebrate - you are the great and the good.
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HSJ Knowledge
Perfect union: why partnerships must seek local public opinion
The health service has a long history of joint working. To build on this, it must recognise local need as a bigger priority than targets and keep decision makers close to communities
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Focus on GP hours is too narrow says PCT Network
The government has been warned to broaden its approach to improving primary care services beyond a focus on extended hours.
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DH toughens line on GP exception reporting
Primary care trusts must ensure they have a strategy in place on GP exception reporting, a health inequalities official has warned.
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Darzi review: PCTs told reforms must save lives
Junior health minister Lord Darzi is to tell primary care trusts they can reconfigure local services only where they can prove it will save lives or improve health outcomes.
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Community services tariff opens way to private provision
The Department of Health is to develop a tariff for community services - paving the way for foundation trusts and the private sector to offer services until now provided by primary care trusts.
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Health managers seek clarity on PCT assets
Health managers are calling for clarity on how primary care trusts should manage their assets when separating commissioner and provider functions.