HSJ is conducting a survey of healthcare managers, senior professionals and decision makers in the sector to understand the application of, and barriers to, quality systems in the NHS.
The results of the research, which is being carried out with the Chartered Quality Institute and Atos Consulting, will be shared exclusively with HSJ.
Integrated care boards could pick performance measures tied to GP practice income, under government proposals for the future of the ‘quality and outcomes framework’ and other incentive payments.
Steve Black highlights three interconnected problems in primary care that rarely get the attention they deserve
The government and NHS England will ‘support’ GP practices to move more quickly to ‘cloud-based’ phone systems, so they can potentially set up shared call centres and make it easier for patients to get through, HSJ understands.
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