All GPs articles – Page 64
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CommentPatient preferences matter: another call for doctors to change
Do clinicians really know what patients want?
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CommentMichael White: will information strategy deliver on its promise?
And will it bring healthcare IT into the 21st centrury?
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HSJ KnowledgeEnhancing communication between GPs and hospital consultants
Dr Matthew Lewis explains how the approach at his trust is improving the quality of patient referrals, and communication between primary and seconday care clinicians.
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News
PCTs to pay GPs an extra £1.1m following system error
The Department of Health has told primary care trusts to make an additional £1.1m of payments to GPs by the end of June, to correct an error dating back to 2004.
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HSJ LocalGP quality monitoring project under threat from reform
PERFORMANCE: A groundbreaking project monitoring the quality of GPs faces an uncertain future once its host strategic health authority is abolished.
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HSJ Local
Physio phone triage rolled out in Surrey
STRUCTURE: Physiotherapy patients in mid Surrey are now benefiting from telephone triage within 48 hours of GP referral, according to the county’s main community social enterprise.
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NewsInformation strategy details: Lansley promises online GP access to 'end 8am rush'
The health secretary has promised patients easier interaction with GP practices, as he published the long awaited NHS information strategy today.
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LeaderGPs vs MPs: the ‘new’ battle ground for a redesigned NHS
Will reconfiguration be any different this time around?
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Comment'A culture shift can help reduce prescription wastage'
Patient involvement is paramount to prescription policy.
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News'Concern' over pledge to give patients access to GP records
One of the leading figures in health information has cast doubt on the government’s ability to give all patients online access to their GP record by 2015.
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NewsDoctors voting on pensions strike action
Doctors across the UK have begun voting on whether to take industrial action for the first time in more than three decades.
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NewsSeeing GP of choice would cut elective admissions - study
Significant hospital savings could result from ensuring patients see the doctor of their choice when they visit their GP, latest research findings suggest.
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London doctors receive new support with revalidation
A support service has been launched in London to offer assistance to doctors at all stages of their careers ahead of revalidation, which is due to begin later this year.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to identify - and manage - conflicts of interest
Identifying, disclosing and managing conflicts of interest will help prevent the risk of issues coming back to haunt you, advise Jonathan Hayden and Ben Troke.
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HSJ KnowledgeWill clinical leadership be the panacea for all health service woes?
Be careful what you wish for, warns Dr Shikha Pitalia, as clinicians are burdened with expectation that their new decision making powers can right all the wrongs in the NHS.
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NewsCCGs to manage and reward GP performance
GP practices look set to be handed an extensive role in performance managing each other – including through the award of bonuses – under proposals being drawn up by the NHS Commissioning Board.
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NewsOne in 20 GP prescriptions contains an error
Around one in 20 prescriptions written by family doctors contains an error, according to a newly published study.
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NewsTighten GP practice rules to counter 'health tourism', group urges
GPs have too much freedom to register ill foreigners who may not be entitled to expensive British healthcare, campaigners have said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Quantifying QOF: why practices need to take data collection seriously
Finding efficient ways of collecting GP performance data is a challenge that is vital for practices to face head on, writes Hannoh Lowish.
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NewsOut of hours performance data goes online
A fourfold variation in demand for GP out of hours services has emerged in the first detailed data to allow for comparisons between areas.