All Primary care articles – Page 80
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NewsExclusive: CCGs choose not to use power to ditch QOF
There is a little appetite among clinical commissioning groups to move their member practices off the national GP pay for performance framework, despite recently being given powers to do so, HSJ has found.
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LeaderHunt’s deal for doctors forces primary care to be top priority
GP plan cements Hunt’s plan for the NHS
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NewsUpdated: Hunt tells GPs 'deliver your side of the bargain'
The government plans to introduce financial incentives to attract GPs into under-doctored areas in a major shake-up of general practice.
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HSJ KnowledgeMCP vanguard leaders: We will find the solutions
MCP vanguards report on their progress
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NewsNHS England admits 'rush' to spend GP premises fund
NHS England has signalled it will adopt a ‘strategic approach’ in its use of a £1bn fund for primary care premises, admitting that the first year of investment had been a ‘rush’.
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NewsEverington: 'Equal number' of consultants as GPs should sit on CCGs
As many medical consultants as GPs should sit on the governing bodies of their local clinical commissioning groups, a member on HSJ’s Future of NHS Leadership inquiry has said.
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CommentShortsighted public health cut makes a mockery of prevention rhetoric
It will damage the NHS
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SupplementsSupplement case studies: The ways and means of new care pathways
Two CCGs are breaking new grounds in IBD care
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HSJ Knowledge'If vanguards work, the return on investment is to the wider NHS'
Interviews with three vanguard trusts
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NewsEmergency care to be 'completely redesigned' within three years, says Stevens
Urgent and emergency care will undergo a “complete redesign” and be in “a very different place by the middle of this Parliament”, the NHS England chief executive has announced.
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NewsSimon Stevens confirms 'collective' NHS action on agency spend
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has said the NHS will take collective action to tackle the high cost of agency spending in the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Seven day services: Gathering the data to make it happen
Ten acute trusts in the East Midlands joined forces to tackle the challenge
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NewsGP sector sees 'boom' in large provider companies
There has been a ‘boom’ in large scale GP provider organisations being set up in recent months.
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NewsHunt: Peer review, not top-down targets, can improve NHS
Jeremy Hunt has praised the benefits of peer review to improve NHS standards, saying it is a better method than top-down targets.
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HSJ LocalFT becomes ‘emergency caretaker’ of GP surgeries
STRUCTURE: An East Midlands foundation trust is to take over all GP services in three local surgeries under ‘exceptional circumstances’, its commissioners have said.
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LeaderDavid Cameron’s second attempt to reform the NHS will be built on firmer foundations
Hunt has proved effective