All Primary care articles – Page 297
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HSJ Knowledge
Data Briefing: Did the extra money go on new staff?
A new analysis of the reason for and distribution of NHS deficits published by the Department of Health, Explaining NHS Deficits, contains an interesting analysis of what the extra funding from 2000-04 was spent on. The answer, apparently, is that nearly 80 per cent was consumed by the costs of ...
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CommentSimon Stevens on Brown's opening salvo
‘Mr Brown has chosen an issue that explicitly requires him to choose sides: patients v professionals’
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News
How Buckinghamshire is moving opthalmology closer to home
There is a lot of rhetoric about moving care closer to home but how easy is it and can quality be maintained?
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Bupa pulls out of South East diagnostics deal
Bupa has pulled out of a contract with the Department of Health to provide NHS diagnostic services across the South East, HSJ has learned.
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Burns claims political pressure over PCTs
A long-standing senior NHS leader has spoken out to challenge government decisions on new primary care trust boundaries.
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Cabinet reshuffle: smoking and obesity named top priorities
Tackling smoking, obesity and alcohol-related health issues should be the main priorities for new public health minister Dawn Primarolo.
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Call for specialists
All primary care trusts should have a public health specialist dedicated to sexual health, according to a report published today by the independent advisory group on sexual health and HIV. The group warns that sexual health services are at risk because of PCT reorganisations and is calling on the government ...
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GP star-rating talks called off over fears of misuse
Any system of 'star-ratings' for GPs now looks unlikely after the Royal College of GPs broke off talks with the government over the proposals.
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Comment
Cliff Prior profile: 'The only thing you can't predict is where it will go'
In his new job heading a group of not-for-profit organisations, former Rethink chief executive Cliff Prior will have a key role in reshaping community services. But first he has to explain what it is all about
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Comment
Media Watch: earnings cap
So ministers have 'blundered' again, according to London's Evening Standard. This time it is because they have failed to cap doctors' earnings.
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Comment
Media Watch: earnings cap
So ministers have 'blundered' again, according to London's Evening Standard. This time it is because they have failed to cap doctors' earnings.
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News
Inside track: primary care
Lack of jobs, money and clarity on reform are the main ingredients of primary care trust managers' daily grind at the moment. It hardly makes an attractive package. One PCT senior manager told Inside Track that they are moving sector after a career in primary care, because they are 'buggered ...
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Comment
Sophia Christie on why tenders need loving care
Community foundation trusts reproduce the organisations we disbanded five years ago
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Care UK chief urges swift ISTC take-up
Chief executive Mike Parish sounds a cautionary note that government must move quickly to ensure a local ownership care system takes route
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DoH urges primary care trusts to embrace change quicker
Primary care trusts must be as swift to embrace change, innovation, spotting new trends and developing markets as the finance industry, according to the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to commission high quality, low cost health care
The 152 new primary care trusts are tasked with becoming strategic commissioning bodies. This means they must procure a range of provision for local people, which meets their health needs and delivers health improvements, by securing the highest value for their limited money. Stating the task is easy. Delivering it ...
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Comment
Laura Donnelly on primary care leaders
One argument is that new strategic health authority chief executives, keen to assert authority and be seen to do so, are indulging in an exercise otherwise known as 'don't think much of yours?'
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Comment
Sophia Christie on primary care
'The challenge of the last three years has been demand management. The focus for the next two years must be a considered challenge to activity attribution.'
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News
Heart failure review reveals 'worrying' variations in care
A review of heart failure services has found wide variations between the performance of primary care trusts.
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Diabetes care must improve
Most primary care trusts need to improve services for people with diabetes and are only meeting minimum requirements, the Healthcare Commission has found.