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CommentThe CQC's rating regime for health and social care needs to be nuanced
Inconsistencies under fire
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'Success regime' will direct struggling areas to new models, Stevens reveals
National officials will create a ‘success regime’ in which struggling areas are directed to move quickly into the new care models proposed in the NHS Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens has revealed, while warning local leaders against attempts to ‘re-spray’ their existing plans.
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HSJ Local
Two Essex CCG leaders step down
WORKFORCE: Two clinical commissioning group leaders in Essex have left their roles to return to full time general practice, their respective CCGs have said.
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HSJ Local
Cornwall GPs look to out of hours to protect future
COMMERCIAL: GPs in Cornwall have been urged to take back control of out of hours services to preserve the future of general practice in the county, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Local issues need local solutions, not another top-down restructure
Clinical commissioning is key
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HSJ Local
Mid Essex CCG appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed Caroline Dollery as its chair.
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Minority of patients are offered choice of provider, say Monitor and NHS England
Less than 40 per cent of patients are offered a choice of provider when referred by their GP for an outpatient appointment, according to a survey report published today by NHS England and Monitor.
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Doubts over GP phone consultation
Patients who receive telephone consultations from their GP or a nurse are more likely to need care in the month after their phone call than those who see doctors face to face, a new study suggests.
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News
50 million patients 'will be turned away' by GPs
The number of times GP surgeries in England are forced to turn away patients for appointments next year will pass the 50 million mark, new research predicts.
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HSJ Local
Cross-party MPs push for London GP to be allowed access to the market
COMMERCE: Three MPs in Enfield have backed a seven year campaign by a GP to enter what they argue is the London borough’s “inadequate” primary care market.
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Simon Stevens: ‘open’ areas for new GPs could cut inequalities
Bringing down barriers faced by new GP providers wanting to enter the market in underdoctored areas could help cut health inequalities, the chief executive of NHS England has said.
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Patients 'don't understand doctors'
Health workers must do more to ensure patients can understand the advice they have been given, leading doctors have said.
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CCGs seek to follow Somerset in breaking away from QOF
Clinical commissioning groups have queued up to follow Somerset’s lead and break away from the national quality and outcomes framework, despite a strong signal from NHS England that further extension of the freedoms were unlikely in 2014-15.
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Virgin Care is only GP provider not to respond to FOI request
The British Medical Association has called for freedom of information law to apply equally across all GP providers, after it emerged that Virgin Care was required by its contract with NHS England not to respond to requests.
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Back to work scheme for GPs to be drawn up
BREAKING: Health Education England is planning a back to work scheme for GPs to help them return to the NHS.
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HSJ Local
Ten practices in York form GP federation
STRUCTURE: Ten general practices across York have forged closer links by forming a federation to serve 70,000 patients.
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Patient safety scheme piloted
A “ground-breaking” scheme which aims to improve patient safety by ensuring better communication between GPs and pharmacists is to be piloted by health boards in Scotland.
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HSJ Local
Incumbent wins GP out of hours contract
Commercial: A contract to provide out-of-hours GP care to patients in and around Nottingham has been awarded to Nottingham Emergency Services CBS, a non-profit company.
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HSJ Local
Anger over Newcastle practice closure
Plans to close a small GP practice in one of the most deprived parts of Newcastle have been met with criticism from local politicians and health leaders.
