All Primary care articles – Page 99
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HSJ Knowledge
Clare Gerada: 'The Health Act made me ill'
The outgoing and outspoken RCGP chair reflects on her tenure
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Leader
CCGs deserve the chance to prove their worth
There are signs the new commissioning system has promise
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News
Monitor asked to consider hostility to new GP providers
New primary care providers are being stifled by GP commissioner hostility, and the inability of existing practices to sell their businesses, the health sector regulator has been told.
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News
Drugs recalled over plant problems
Drugs made for leading firms including Superdrug are being recalled after inspectors found problems with manufacturing at an Indian plant.
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News
CQC will 'campaign for more GPs and longer consultations'
The Care Quality Commission will “campaign” for longer consultations and greater increases in the GP workforce, its professional adviser on primary care has said.
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News
Plaid Cymru demands paperless health service
Paper records for hospital patients should be scrapped and replaced with iPads, Plaid Cymru’s health spokeswoman has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Encourage GPs to take ownership of their CCG
The new bodies must have strong relationships
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News
Call for greater hearing loss support
Older people with hearing loss are more than twice as likely to develop depression compared with those without the condition, a charity has revealed.
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Comment
Patient data: finding the right balance
Striking the right balance between the protection and use of patient data
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News
DH policy chief calls for combined GP and community contracts
The health service should contract single services that link general practice with community health and care, the Department of Health’s policy director has said.
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News
Field: Nurses central to primary care reform
Nurse training needs a “radical review” to meet the “urgent” need for professionals with the skills to care for patients with long term conditions, the new chief inspector of primary care has said.
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Supplements
Beating down the barriers - an HSJ roundtable
HSJ’s latest roundtable agreed that the potential savings in commissioning are huge - but age old problems stand in the way of realising them
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News
GPs 'facing financial black hole'
GP services are facing a £400m financial “black hole” that could have catastrophic consequences, the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned.
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News
RCGP elects new honorary secretary
The professional body that represents over 46,000 family doctors has appointed its new honorary secretary of council.
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Leader
Hunt must show he is in it for the long haul to sustain the NHS
Health secretary needs to think beyond 2015 election
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News
Steve Field: I'll use chief inspector role to drive primary care reform and integration
The new chief inspector of general practice will use his role to reform primary care and develop integrated services, and to call for additional funding where it is needed, he has told HSJ.
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News
Cameron announces new funding for GP practices to open for longer
GPs will be offered money to open their surgeries seven days a week and out of office hours under proposals unveiled by the prime minister today.
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Supplements
Critical point for checks − an HSJ/LGC supplement
How to increase the uptake of NHS Health Check