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NewsBMA to canvass GPs over 'mass resignation'
GP representatives push BMA to survey willingness to sign undated resignation letters in protest at funding, workforce and regulatory grievances Call for “resilience teams” to be parachuted into practices that seek help with staffing shortages BMA conference votes to find “lawful” ways of disengaging with CQC inspections ...
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News‘Collapsing’ out of hours providers would get help, says Burt
Minister says he has not seen evidence that outof hours providers are being squeezed by GP practices piloting extended opening hours Government would step in if services were affected by doctors choosing to work at pilot sites The government would step in to save GP out of hours ...
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NewsHSJ annual lecture: Hunt defends plan for 'Ofsted style ratings' of CCGs
A commissioning chief and GP leader have criticised Jeremy Hunt’s plan to introduce Ofsted style ratings for clinical commissioning group performance in a range of clinical areas.
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NewsExclusive: CQC airs prospect of 'more light touch' regulation
The Care Quality Commission will begin considering whether it should move to ‘more light touch’ regulation later this year, the chief inspector of general practice has told HSJ.
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NewsHEE review: Primary care should be favoured for running community nursing
A series of recommendations have been set out by a major review of primary care workforce commissioned by Health Education England.
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SupplementsHSJ Clinical Leaders 2015
The Clinical Leaders for 2015 highlights 100 individuals whose clinical background is shaping the work that they do
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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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NewsCQC drops risk ratings from GP monitoring
The Care Quality Commission will no longer be risk rating GP practices as part of its intelligent monitoring process.
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NewsSimon Stevens cements place as most powerful person in healthcare
Simon Stevens has been named the most powerful person in healthcare in the HSJ100, just eight months after becoming NHS England chief executive.
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NewsOpen letter in full: Respect for NHS managers
The full text of the open letter calling for a change in attitudes towards NHS managers
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NewsHealthcare leaders attack 'scapegoating' of managers
Leading clinicians and patient campaigners have joined two former health secretaries to call for a change in attitude towards NHS managers
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NewsGPs should urgently discuss new care models
GPs should begin talking about the new models of care in the NHS Five Year Forward View ‘very soon’, one of their leaders has said.
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NewsStevens: Hospitals should open GP surgeries
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has proposed that some hospitals should be allowed to open their own GP surgeries.
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NewsHunt commissions independent study into GP capacity
The health secretary has commissioned Health Education England to conduct an area by area examination of general practice capacity
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NewsInadequate GPs will be told to improve or face closure
GP practices that persistently provide inadequate services will face closure if they fail to improve within a year, the Care Quality Commission has announced.
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NewsLack of GP funding 'hitting care'
Patient care is being compromised by a “chronic lack of investment” in GPs, leading family doctors have warned.
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NewsRCGP chair backs co-commissioning of general practice
The chair of the Royal College of GPs has backed the co-commissioning of general practice by NHS England and clinical commissioning groups.
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LeaderGeneral practice is the NHS’s great strength, which it has to review
Reviewing the role of GPs will be worthwhile
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NewsInterview: New GP leader condemns PM's A&E plan
The chair elect of the Royal College of GPs has condemned the prime minister’s £500m accident and emergency bailout plan as “voodoo med-economics” and said it was driven by “political priorities ahead of a forthcoming general election”.