Primary Care Resource Centre
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Solid foundations: how to lead successfully in the new foundation landscape
Life after authorisation will present new and unusual challenges for many foundation trust executives. Phil Kenmore and Simon Bird have four tips to help them with their survival - and look toward a successful future.
How CCGs can make savings in their prescription budget
Providing GPs with the right support on prescribing can realistically deliver savings for CCGs in their prescription budgets that could make a significant dent in an annual NHS spend of £8bn a year, says Claire Forde.
Five integral steps to support commissioning headache services
A framework to support commissioning headache services that champions intermittent care headache clinics led by a GP with a special interest in headache offers important benefits to both patients and commissioners, says Dr David Kernick.
Developing a health and local government service integration model
Could one trust’s health and local government service integration be a model for the rest of the country to follow? Dr Chris Clayton reports on the successful pilot at Blackburn with Darwen PCT.
Reaping joint benefits of streamlined hip and knee care pathways
One consortium’s approach to overhauling hip and knee care has brought efficiency and financial rewards while sparing patients from repeated trips to hospital. Debra de Silva and Sima Haririan explain.
Can CCGs learn to integrate mental health services from a Californian healthcare model?
Emerging clinical commissioning groups could learn a lot from the way mental health services are being incorporated into an overall model of healthcare by independent practice associations in California, say Beacon Health Strategies colleagues Dr Emma Stanton and Brian Wheelan.
Why physical health checks for mental health patients are vital to their wellbeing
Improving the provision of physical health checks for people with severe mental illness provides an opportunity to make a major difference to the health and wellbeing of this vulnerable group, write Drs Kallol Sain and Sweta Patil.
How a transformation programme helps improve community services' efficiency
A strategic transformation programme has helped a community provider reform and redesign its services and improve efficiency as a central part of its bid for foundation trust status. Jo Manley and Mark Eaton outline the programme.
How doctor-patient phone calls can cut unnecessary emergency care attendances
When GPs phone back patients who want to book an appointment, many often accept they do not need to visit the surgery or to go to A&E after all. Harry Longman explains the benefits this level of doctor access offers.
Liberating Ideas: the award-winning projects that could truly liberate the NHS
Which of the Liberating Ideas Award 2011 winners’ projects has the greatest potential to be adopted by the rest of the NHS? Alison Moore watched the final judging session.
Legal lessons: securing judicial review of service reconfiguration
The Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust has successfully claimed Judicial Review of the Safe and Sustainable consultation about Paediatric Congenital Cardiac Services. Hempsons colleagues Bertie Leigh and Christian Dingwall explain how.
Why AQP can drive real benefits in primary and secondary care
Any Qualified Provider has proved to be a controversial policy with those working in the health service, but, argue Dr Walter Serino, Professor Sam Lingam and Richard Banyard, AQP has potential to be far more friend than foe.
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The critical need to evaluate and improve back office functions
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Why shifting DVT management into primary care can improve clinical outcomes
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How to meet QIPP challenges in end of life care services
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Where is the NHS equivalent of the strategic defence and security review?
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Why trust procurement needs price comparison to be efficient
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Learning legal lessons from the transforming community services scheme
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Neurology services in need of new headache pathways to improve productivity
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Improving cardiac care for clinicians while reducing cost to the NHS
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Setting out the principles for integrated care
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Why a better understanding of emergency admissions needs better data
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Why occupational therapists have a vital role in integrated care
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Why the success of health and wellbeing boards depends on relationships
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How scenario planning can inspire creative approaches to innovation
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From middle to higher ground: teaching the leaders of the future
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Moving to fairer funding and standardised services for GP practices
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Setting up successful joint strategic needs assessments
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How a holistic approach to healthcare drives better value
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Why technology holds the key to better population health
Useful links
Payment by Results
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Payment by Results conference.
HSJ roundtable: education and training
Training in the NHS costs £5bn a year. Alison Moore reports from a lively HSJ roundtable discussion on the government’s plans to reform it.
