All British Medical Association (BMA) articles – Page 26
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NewsNearly 600 GP practices closed since 2010
Nearly 600 GP practices have closed in the last five years, data seen by HSJ reveals.
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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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Primary care capital fund underspent by nearly half
The government owned company set up to manage thousands of primary care premises and other NHS buildings spent only around half of its planned capital budget last year.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs choose not to use power to ditch QOF
There is a little appetite among clinical commissioning groups to move their member practices off the national GP pay for performance framework, despite recently being given powers to do so, HSJ has found.
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NewsUpdated: Hunt tells GPs 'deliver your side of the bargain'
The government plans to introduce financial incentives to attract GPs into under-doctored areas in a major shake-up of general practice.
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SupplementsHSJ100 roundtable: How do you fill a £30bn funding gap?
The NHS must deliver huge efficiency savings in the next few years
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NewsJunior doctors told they must negotiate new contract
The chief executive of NHS Employers has warned the British Medical Association ‘there is no alternative’ to negotiation over a new contract for junior doctors.
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NewsUpdated: Four out of five GP practices rated 'good' by CQC
More than four in five GP practices rated by the Care Quality Commission have been judged ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, analysis by HSJ has found.
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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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HSJ KnowledgeHospital mortality rates are a blunt instrument to measure avoidable death
Avoidable deaths mystery
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NewsExclusive: Employers push BMA on pay deal 'fairness'
The British Medical Association has been accused of taking an ‘untenable position’ in refusing to accept that changes to NHS redundancy pay apply to doctors.
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Exclusive: Rise in consultations greater for non-GPs, analysis finds
Activity in general practice has risen in the last three complete financial years, but most of this has been for medical professionals other than GPs, research by a leading health think thank suggests.
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NewsQOF 'bad for health', says NHS England GP leader
NHS England’s most senior GP leaders have criticised the national GP pay for performance framework as ‘bad for health’. Clinicians should instead be incentivised to work more closely with other parts of the health system, they said.
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NewsExclusive: Consultants' leader calls for 'sensible' seven day working proposals
Higher patient mortality at weekends needs to be tackled but proposals for seven day working must be ‘sensible and realistic’, the chair of the British Medical Association consultants committee has told HSJ.
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NewsCCGs consider swapping GPs to avoid conflict of interest
Clinical commissioning groups are considering swapping GPs with their neighbouring groups to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest in commissioning primary care.
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NewsUpdated: Third of CCGs apply for full co-commissioning powers over GP members
Around a third of clinical commissioning groups are bidding to take over responsibility for performance management and budgets of their member GP practices from April, HSJ can reveal.