All GPs articles – Page 108
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CommentPredictions on the new government's next moves
The future of the largest departmental budget and the second biggest area of government spending after welfare initially boiled down to just 30 words in the government’s initial coalition agreement.
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NewsHard budgets for GPs – profit or productivity?
The coalition government’s plans for revamping practice based commissioning with ‘real’ budgets are dominated by concerns over ensuring the policy will incentivise service improvement and not simply produce wealthier GPs. Steve Ford reports
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CommentDoctor numbers: all trained up, nowhere to go?
Expanded training means there is an emerging glut of doctors - what should be done?
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NewsSpearhead PCTs achieve limited success on cancer survival
GPs should receive incentive payments to help improve cancer survival rates in deprived areas, according to a think tank close to the Conservatives.
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NewsNorth-South health divide remains
There is still a North-South divide on health in England despite attempts to promote wellbeing for all, according to figures published today.
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HSJ KnowledgeResidential care commissioning leaves room for improvement
Despite their complex needs it has been revealed that many care home residents lack access to specialist services, reports Stuart Shepherd
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NewsShort GP appointment times 'hit diagnostic ability', survey claims
Doctors are struggling to diagnose patients because appointment times are too short, a survey of 200 GPs suggests.
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NewsChoice more important to patients than doctors
GPs resistant to offering choice of hospital treatment are underestimating its importance to patients and undermining its ability to improve quality of care.
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CommentJohn Deffenbaugh: let us exploit our canny GPs
Let’s tap into local doctors’ famous entrepreneurial nous - and pay them to manage demand on the NHS
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NewsTop board members leave NHS London
Two members of NHS London’s non-executive board, including its chair, resigned last week after health secretary Andrew Lansley’s “halt” of its capital-wide reconfiguration programme.
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NewsScottish patients to be assessed by nurses to increase productivity
Controversial proposals have been announced that will see patients in Scotland assessed by nurses instead of consultants in a bid to achieve targets for NHS waiting times.
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NewsNHS call scheme 'risking lives'
Lives are being put at risk by a new centralised call centre for hospitals in Scotland, doctors have claimed.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on the new NHS value for money
One of the impacts of the election result could be that the deep fascination the leadership of the NHS has with the nuances of their secretary of state’s policy will in the near future provide very diminishing returns.
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NewsBMA questions 'costly venture' of removing practice boundaries
Removing general practice boundaries will increase bureaucracy and costs at a time when the new government is under pressure to make savings, doctors’ leaders have warned.
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NewsImperial College Healthcare chief backs GP integration
One of the biggest hospital trusts in England wants to convert itself into a vertically integrated care organisation.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to use predictive risk modelling in healthcare
Mathematical modelling can help predict risk of hospital admission in a given population, writes Daloni Carlisle
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NewsHSJ exclusive: SHAs to be abolished by 2012
Strategic health authority chiefs have been told they will be abolished by April 2012, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS 'facing significant change' - Confed
NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards has said the health service faces significant changes under the new government.
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NewsLansley: NHS must review reconfiguration plans
Planned service reconfigurations must be reconsidered under “strengthened criteria” set out by the new health secretary today, including support from GP commissioners.