All Primary care articles – Page 92
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CommentIntegration Summit: Closed doors and outward attitudes tell a story
Hear from the facilitator
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CommentHow to look after older people in an ideal world
An alternative care pathway could have very different outcomes
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CommentReaders' letters – 2 July 2014
‘Heat maps’ of wards could help identify which are struggling to cope
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NewsNHS England to offer local commissioning 'step-change'
Simon Stevens is set to invite clinical commissioning groups and local authorities to experiment with a further “step change” in joint commissioning arrangements.
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News'Crisis' warning over GP trainees
General practice services could face a crisis if more medical students cannot be persuaded to become GPs, a healthcare academic has warned.
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SupplementsFlexible Futures: Embrace locum staff
Flexibility and motivation benefit both the employee and employer
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NewsHunt: CCGs must become 'accountable care organisations'
Clinical commissioning groups must become more accountable as they expand their role in delivering healthcare, the health secretary has said
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NewsSimon Stevens: ‘open’ areas for new GPs could cut inequalities
Bringing down barriers faced by new GP providers wanting to enter the market in underdoctored areas could help cut health inequalities, the chief executive of NHS England has said.
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SupplementsClinical care protocols: When safe comes as standard
Why evidence based clinical care protocols hold the key to standardising care
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NewsAround 180 CCGs bid for primary care co-commissioning
Bids to co-commission primary care have been submitted by around 180 of England’s 211 clinical commissioning groups, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPractices increasingly relying on primary care staff to fill GP shortfalls
GP surgeries in areas with some of the highest patient to doctor ratios are increasingly relying on nurses to plug gaps left by the shortage of medics
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CommentTeach clinicians how to talk about cancer
Patients want a dialogue that goes beyond their consultation
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HSJ LocalFoundation trust set to start running GP practices
STRUCTURE: Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust is set to take over the “full ownership” of two GP practices, it has said, and is offering to run others.
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NewsNHS restructure was a 'step backwards' for IVF services, watchdog says
The coalition’s radical reshaping of the health service has been a “step backwards” for the commissioning of fertility services in the NHS, the chair of the national fertility watchdog has said.
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NewsBMA: National GP contract will diminish in significance
The nationally agreed GP contract will diminish in significance as CCGs increasingly agree local deals with practices, the BMA’s GP committee chair has acknowledged
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NewsNHS England strategy director joins GP and urgent care provider
The recently departed strategy director of NHS England has been appointed as a partner at a large GP and urgent care provider.
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NewsCCGs seek to follow Somerset in breaking away from QOF
Clinical commissioning groups have queued up to follow Somerset’s lead and break away from the national quality and outcomes framework, despite a strong signal from NHS England that further extension of the freedoms were unlikely in 2014-15.
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NewsDH creates £250m fund for elective 'resilience'
The Department of Health is to provide an additional £250m to the NHS to help providers clear their planned care waiting list backlogs.