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Comment
Choose and Consult over Choose and Book
Choose and Book needs to be radically reformed to become a modern Choose and Consult service so that the inefficient divide between specialists and GPs is done away with. By Martin Roland and Sam Everington
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HSJ Partners
How to solve the privacy and confidentiality riddle
Medical care is a team effort but patient data must be secure and privacy maintained at all cost. By Mark Davies
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News
BMA leader sounds alarm over PM's new GP contract
BMA GP leader raises concern about the potential for the planned new voluntary GP contract being time limited HSJ understands officials are still working to allay fears, including guaranteeing a right of return to previous contracts Other issues under discussion include indemnity costs, income
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News
Minister: Seven day GP pledge has been ‘misinterpreted’
Government’s commitment to seven-day GP services has been misinterpreted, says minister Plans for rolling out new models of enhanced access to GPs will be published soon Alistair Burt: ‘Binary divide’ between innovation-ready practices and failing providers The government’s pledge to ensure
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Leader
Nothing stopping women from being good clinicians as well as leaders
Gillian Fairfield on how women can successfully take up the role of clinician and manager despite all odds
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester GPs asked to be 'early adopters' of new contract
WORKFORCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester want their GPs to become an “early adopters” of the government’s new contract.
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Comment
Move patient and public involvement from the margins to the mainstream
The benefits of improved engagement in healthcare
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HSJ Local
Shropshire GPs have ‘no capacity’ to take on rural urgent care work
RECONFIGURATION: GP leaders in Shropshire have raised fears that a proposed reorganisation of emergency care in the region would see an increase in GP workloads for which they say there is no more capacity.
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Comment
Vanguards in action
The key to success of the new care models is strong partnerships involving health, social care and others
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HSJ Knowledge
Dawn of the volunteer revolution
Volunteering needs a ‘rebrand’, if its vital role in delivering sustainable healthcare is to be fully realised, believes the chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, writes Daloni Carlisle
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HSJ Local
Eastern Cheshire doubles investment in general practice
Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group has announced plans to almost double the amount it invests in general practice to improve the range of services on offer to patients.
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HSJ Local
GPs tell patients providers are ‘in crisis’
PRIMARY CARE: GPs across Coventry have written to patients telling them that general practice is ‘in crisis’ due to a reduction in government funding as a proportion of the total NHS budget.
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HSJ Local
Vale of York GPs have ‘no confidence’ in CCG savings plans
FINANCE: GPs have told the leaders of Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group that they have ‘no confidence’ in the CCG’s management of the group’s financial rescue plans.
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in Medicines Management
Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in the use of Diagnostics
Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015
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News
GPs in small practices earn more than those in large ones
The average incomes of GPs working in single hander practices are slightly more than 8 per cent higher than those of their counterparts working in large practices, figures show.
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News
CCG action on patient choice 'varied', says Monitor
There is a ‘varied picture’ in the way clinical commissioning groups promote patient choice across the country, the regulator Monitor has said.