All GP practice management articles – Page 2
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NewsExclusive: Labour to nationalise GPs and private healthcare
Labour is considering adopting plans to bring all GP practices and private healthcare providers into public ownership, according to an internal party discussion document seen by HSJ.
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NewsNo more big IT contracts for the NHS – Hancock
The new health and social care secretary has said “big contracts” for NHS IT services are over, claiming the service is often taken advantage of by suppliers.
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CommentHealth and housing cross sector commission can be a total game changer
Health and housing coupled together can reduce poverty, improve health and reduce demand on the NHS, states Lord Kerslake
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CommentSplitting up general practice services won't always work
Fragmentation of general practice services will jeopardise the value that it delivers to patients and the NHS, notes Rebecca Rosen
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HSJ LocalRevealed: Trust acquires first GP practice
An acute and community trust is set to become the first in its county to acquire a GP practice.
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NewsCQC: Trusts drop ratings amid 'precarious' care quality
More than a quarter of mental health trusts and almost a fifth of acute trusts previously rated ‘good’ have got worse on reinspection, the Care Quality Commission’s annual State of Care report reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Naylor 'delighted' at £3.3bn private investment offer
Sir Robert Naylor has said he is “delighted” at an offer from three private property firms to invest more than £3.3bn in new NHS primary care facilities.
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CommentFive ways to reduce the costs of clinical negligence
Dr Matthew Lee tells how to tackle the issue of unaffordable indemnity and restore fairness to the civil negligence system
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CommentWe need more trust between managers, patients and the front line
With rising use of technology, building trust between patients, doctors and the management is essential to meet the challenges in healthcare in the UK and the US
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Leading GP vanguard expands into third region
A large GP partnership, running a one of the country’s most advanced new care model vanguards in the West Midlands, has extended its reach to Berkshire.
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CommentBuilding a team of teams in the NHS
Like the US army in Iraq, the NHS can restructure its teams to improve its functioning
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NewsHurley Group practice put in special measures
High profile GP partnership has practice rated inadequate by the CQC but the group is appealing the decision Hurley Group is led by NHS England primary care director Arvind Madan, who is also listed as partner for the group All Saints Practice in East London criticised for patient access ...
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NewsAnalysis: England's changing GP landscape
Over 70 per cent of the country are covered by some form of scale GP group Just one in ten 10 CCGs in England do not have any “at scale” GP organisations in their area HSJ analysis reveals majority of large scale GP groups do not cover NHS England’s ...
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NewsNew primary care model linked to lower A&E attendance
Areas testing the “primary care home” model for general practice have shown “significant reductions” in A&E attendances and lower GP waiting times, new data reveals.
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NewsGP quality – North: Greater Manchester and surrounds lags rest of region
Manchester region has eight out of the top 11 CCGs with the highest number of GP surgeries rated requires improvement or inadequate by CQC Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby in north Yorkshire tops the list with 27 per cent of surgeries receiving the lowest two CQC ratings North Tynside CCG ...
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NewsGP quality - London: CQC ratings confirm challenge in East London
Four out of the five worst performing CCGs for primary care are in East London, according to aggregated CQC ratings Tower Hamlets bucks the trend though with 10 per cent of all GP surgeries rated outstanding North West London has four out of the five top CCGs with the ...
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NewsGP quality: Best and worst CCGs in the Midlands and East
Poor quality GP surgeries scattered across the Midlands and East region, with the worst three performing CCGs in Essex, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire Three neighbouring CCGs in south Essex appear in the 10 CCGs with the highest percentage of inadequate or requires improvement CQC ratings Nottingham West outstrips all other ...
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NewsGP quality: The best and worst areas in the South
Borders of Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey have the majority of worst CQC rated GP surgeries Almost a third of surgeries in South Reading require improvement or rated inadequate South East England an enclave for GP surgeries rated outstanding East Berkshire and bordering areas in Hampshire and Surrey have ...
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NewsGP whistleblower guardian deadline extended
Primary care providers will have until September next year to name their “freedom to speak up” guardians, NHS England has said.
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NewsCQC to bust budget in effort to meet GP inspection deadline
CQC GP inspection programme almost £700,000 over budget Increased budget used to increase workforce to meet March deadline David Behan “not open to any other possibility” than adhering to the timeline The Care Quality Commission has admitted its GP inspection programme will be £700,000 over budget this year ...