All Primary care articles – Page 286
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Getting involved improves your health
New research shows that social participation is just as important for improving the health of older people as medical intervention.
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HSJ Knowledge
Get together
A new inspection regime - the comprehensive area assessment - is to be rolled out for a range of local services. HSJ and sister title LGC collected the great and the good to discuss how it will affect their work
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Petitioners could get right to a response
Primary care trusts will be forced to react to petitions from service users and the public if controversial proposals from the Department of Health get the go ahead.
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HSJ Knowledge
Special report: PCT futures
In December, HSJran the PCT Futures conference in London, bringing together a wide range of speakers from government, primary care and the independent sector. In this special report we examine some of the main themes to emerge, from the complex arguments around splitting commissioning ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Preparing for healthcare resource group four
Healthcare resource groups are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use comparable levels of healthcare resource.
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Comment
A freedom framework will unite former foes
With the debate about freedom from political interference raging, strategic health authority chief executive Mark Britnell outlines his model for compromise and wonders what an NHS charter might contain
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Inside track: finance - what's on managers' minds this week
'What we don't need is more negative images perpetuated by those at the centre'
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GP-led firm is favourite to run six London practices for PCT
A London primary care trust has selected a GP-led company as preferred bidder to run six practices.
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Comment
Money no excuse for hampering progress
As a medic and former White House adviser, Dr Mark McClellan is a natural opinion leader on health policy. He explains his vision
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News
Every GP practice to get kitemark rating
Every GP surgery is to be rated from next year under a kitemark scheme backed by the Department of Health.
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Pilots lead way in new era of high-tech 'telecare' at home
Three primary care trusts will be chosen next month to deliver hardware worth thousands of pounds to the homes of patients with long-term conditions, according to Department of Health head of primary care Gary Belfield.
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Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality
Primary care trusts are not taking sufficient account of gender when they plan services to meet new laws, a report commissioned by the Department of Health has found.
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Surrey social enterprise prepares for launch
England's largest so-called 'social enterprise' offering healthcare services will launch in shadow form on 1 August.
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Minister: end third sector 'mutual loathing'
Commissioners have been urged not to hold third sector health services at 'arm's length'.
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Comment
Is this really the end of under-capacity?
Financial incentives and technology mean inpatient demand and length of stay are falling, although the population is ageing. In 10 years waiting lists will be a thing of the past say Celine Druilhe and Eric Louie
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LIFT eight times more expensive, MPs told
Primary care trusts are paying up to eight times as much per patient for GP surgeries built by local improvement finance trusts, a report from the Commons public accounts committee has found.
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Comment
Early learning is key weapon in obesity war
Concerns are mounting over rising obesity, but is enough being done to slim down the problem, asks Liz Kendall
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HSJ Knowledge
Early learners
Thirteen health communities have volunteered to be 'early achievers' for the tough new 18-week target. Alison Moore hears lessons from the pioneering trusts
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Laura Donnelly on honesty and political risks
'Admitting that the NHS does not always offer a 'world-class service' is a high political risk'
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DoH opts out of traffic light rating for PCTs
The Department of Health has decided not to give primary care trusts an overall traffic-light rating at the end of fitness for purpose assessments.