All GP practice management articles – Page 16
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News
High exception rate worth £15k income
High exception reporters could be gaining more than £15,000 a year through their exception reporting - approximately 12 per cent of their total funds from the quality and outcomes framework.
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Leader
Practices' minimum income is a guarantee of health inequity
Figures obtained byHSJ this week reveal huge variations in the amount GP practices are paid for doing their job, regardless of how many patients they serve or the severity of their needs.
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News
GPs in poorer areas 'prescribe fewer drugs'
GPs in poorer areas prescribe fewer drugs and spend less on them than GPs in richer areas, research by Suffolk primary care trust has found.
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News
Jon Restell on valuing all frontline staff
I have had the people who work in general practice on my mind recently. At this time of especially heightened clinical engagement, it is easier than ever to forget that good healthcare is delivered by teams.
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News
Managers see private sector as threat, survey reveals
Sixty-eight per cent of practice managers think private sector providers pose a major threat to the quality of general practice and patient care, according to a new survey.
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Comment
Political opening hours
As a medical student, I sat in on GP clinics and recall whole mornings with patients seeing their charming GP, chatting, then leaving the room reassured but without a new diagnosis or treatment, writes Jake Low-Beer
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Comment
GP hours - what a mess
Well, well, well. What a shock the National Audit Office has stated that GPs earn lots more money for working fewer hours. This is something that has been widely known for some time, writes Les Collister
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News
GPs fail to help with appointments audit
Primary care trusts have been unable to complete an audit of the number of GP appointments provided by practices because GPs have refused to hand over the information, following British Medical Association advice.
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News
Health bodies lack disaster plans, report reveals
A report published by the Chartered Management Institute and Cabinet Office has found that organisations across the health sector are failing to put adequate plans in place in case of disasters such as extreme weather.The survey found that only 39 per cent of health sector organisations have a business continuity ...
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News
NHS surplus should be spent on GP services, says Alliance
The NHS Alliance is calling on the NHS to use this year's surplus to ensure extended GP opening hours offer real benefits to patients.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to pick a prescription
Prescribing advisers help curb the national drugs spend and GPs value them too. Daloni Carlisle looks at their developing role
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HSJ Knowledge
Change of view: improving primary care
GPs in Essex were stimulated by the arrival of an alternative provider contract in their patch, say Hilary Ayerst and Paul Corrigan
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Comment
Andrew Jones on extending primary care
As I opened the envelope from the British Medical Association, I found myself reflecting on a tumultuous few months. The envelope in question contained a justification of the GPs' committee's negotiating stance on extended hours and a form for voting on enhanced payments options.
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News
GPs accept extended hours under protest
GPs have voted to accept a new deal that will mean most practices opening for longer. But they say they are angry at the way the government handled negotiations.More than nine out of 10 GPs polled by the British Medical Association voted for the first of two options, but 96 ...
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Comment
Juggling GP hours
In response to the article by NHS Employers' Alastair Henderson, 'GPs must see sense on hours', My colleagues and I do not have a problem particularly with working extended hours, writes Dr ARJ Boggis
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Comment
Occupational health doctors get people back to work
The British Medical Association is right to say that GPs alone cannot reduce employee absence due to ill health (news, page 8, 21 February). Occupational health doctors are specialists trained to work with employees and employers, to rehabilitate people back into work, writes Gordon Parker
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News
Eleventh-hour changes to GP contract left PCTs with bill
The introduction of the new GP contract led to a 57 per cent increase in payments to practices in just three years, the National Audit Office has found. The huge increase was fuelled by a last-minute concession to the British Medical Association that sidelined the government's own priority to tackle ...
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News
Practice managers seek lobby muscle
GP practice managers are attempting to establish their own national representative body to lobby on behalf of the profession and develop a code of ethics that members can sign as a mark of their professionalism.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health screening: from talk to action
The importance of preventive diagnosis and screening programmes are now being talked up by the prime minister himself. Joshua Rowe looks at how they are already saving money - and lives
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HSJ Knowledge
Health screening: from talk to action
Preventive diagnosis and screening programmes can improve patient care and save the NHS money, writes Joshua Rowe