All Primary care articles – Page 5
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LeaderThe NHS’s national clinical leaders need a clearer, stronger role
There are many candidates competing for the title of the most difficult leadership role in the NHS. However, national medical director has one of the most compelling cases, with chief nursing officer coming a close second.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Tony Blair’s digital health record proposal
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS enhance value in primary care prescribing?
An HSJ roundtable, in association with Spirit Health, discussed the challenges and strategies for optimising prescribing practices, improving cost management, and fostering better collaboration within integrated care systems
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NewsPrimary care excluded from drug deal because GPs and commissioners cannot be trusted
Primary care will continue to be denied access to drugs whose price has been reduced as part of a deal between government and the pharmaceutical industry because “commissioners, doctors and pharmacists” cannot be trusted with confidential information about costs, according to an NHS England letter.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Carrying the can for corridor care
This week’s HSJ podcast looks at the latest development in Shropshire’s troubled health system and hospitals, and NHS England’s move to ramp up the rollout of the federated data platform.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Walking into a GP trap
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE leak reveals GP ‘work to rule’ could cost £570m in four months
GPs’ “collective action” could cost over half a billion pounds and lead to around half a million additional elective referrals over four months, according to NHS England’s internal modelling.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Rachel Reeves’ blueprint for the NHS
The new chancellor this week made her first big intervention on public spending and the NHS — backing above-inflation pay rises for NHS staff, effectively pausing the new hospitals programme, and calling for tech-powered productivity reforms.
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NewsGPs vote overwhelmingly for collective action
GPs have voted overwhelmingly to take collective action from today following a dispute over the 2024-25 contract, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsStreeting orders ‘emergency measure’ to avert doctor unemployment
Concerns that many GPs completing their training this summer could be left without a job has forced government to release an extra £82m to pay for their employment.
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NewsHospitals could see 10% hike in referrals under GP action
Some areas could receive at least 10 per cent more referrals — “crippling” their attempts at elective recovery — if all GP practices stopped diverting some patients with “specialist advice and guidance”, HSJ analysis shows.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: It’s crunch time for general practice
On this episode we unpick the fast moving situation surrounding the GP ballot for “collective action” and the crucial pay negotiations between the BMA and the new government.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will ministers rob primary care to pay primary care?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Getting past the ‘bitter animosity’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe collateral damage caused by the row over physician associates
As NHS funding debates heat up, first-contact physiotherapists are unfairly targeted. Despite their crucial role in managing musculoskeletal conditions and easing GP workloads, their importance should not be overshadowed, writes Ash James
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NewsGP industrial action may hit all services, ICBs and trusts warned
Integrated care boards and trusts should develop plans to deal with potential “whole system” impact of GP “collective action” from next week, NHS England has warned.
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NewsIT outages hit thousands of services
Thousands of GP practices – and some other localised services – are without their IT systems today, due to global outages also affecting banking, media and aviation.
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NewsThreefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
Patients trying to reach their GP are almost three times as likely to fail to get through in the worst-performing integrated care systems than the best, according to analysis of new annual figures.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: 48,000 hours stuck in an ambulance
This week we discuss the ongoing harm done by long ambulance handover delays and what the new government must do to address this problem.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Streeting’s first days
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.