All GPs articles – Page 69
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HSJ Local
Six Cornwall CCGs merge to become two - including one of the largest in England
STRUCTURE: Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT GPs are now proposing two clinical commissioning groups, down from an initial six practice based commissioning groups.
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HSJ Local
'Race split' Milton Keynes CCGs agree to merge
STRUCTURE: Two emerging clinical commissioning groups in Milton Keynes - one of which was dominated by doctors with an Asian background - have agreed to merge.
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NewsFirst funds announced for GP Extraction Service
The NHS Information Centre has announced it will receive around £40m of funding to enable clinical data to be extracted from GP practices.
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HSJ Local
Bradford and Airedale reports three emerging CCGs
STRUCTURE: There are three emerging clinical commissioning groups for GPs in Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT, following discussions over the past year.
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HSJ Local
Three Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale emerging CCGs become one
STRUCTURE: Three GP groups within Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT have merged to form a single CCG, NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG.
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HSJ Local
Five GP groups become one CCG in East Lancs
STRUCTURE: Five GP commissioning groups within NHS East Lancashire Teaching PCT have merged to become one emerging clinical commissioning group.
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NewsCivil service unions hold up pensions 'progress'
The government will today outline progress made on the public sector pensions dispute, which remains unresolved despite lengthy talks.
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NewsExclusive: Commissioning board will have GP deputy medical director
A GP will be appointed as the deputy medical director of the NHS Commissioning Board, its medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has said.
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HSJ Local
Two Bolton emerging CCGs become one
STRUCTURE: All GP practices in Bolton are now part of a single emerging clinical commissioning group, Bolton Health Consortium.
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NewsNHS managers asked to resign - Labour
Senior NHS figures have been sent letters asking for their resignation as part of the move towards controversial health reforms, Labour has revealed.
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NewsGMC to provide assisted suicide guidance
The General Medical Council is to issue guidance on how to deal with complaints against doctors who may have assisted in suicides.
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NewsClinical commissioning group boards should have tenure and size limits
A model constitution for clinical commissioning groups has recommended board members serve no longer than four years at a time, and boards should be limited to 12 people.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere is the NHS equivalent of the strategic defence and security review?
The so-called “radical” health reforms are for the large part anything but, but they raise a central point about an imbalance in the NHS workforce and its sustainability in the current system. This needs to be addressed urgently, writes Robert Royce.
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HSJ Local
Herts CCGs overspend affecting PCT
FINANCE: Clinical commissioning groups in Hertfordshire are spending far more planned - leaving the PCT as a whole overspent at the end of month six.
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HSJ Local
Chlamydia cases falling in Cambridgeshire
PERFORMANCE: The number of people tested for chlamydia in Cambridgeshire fell by a third in October compared with the same period the year before.
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NewsAnalysis: patients in poorer regions using A&E over GP
Patients in the poorest areas are 63 per cent more likely than those in the richest locations to find it hard to see a GP. They are also 53 per cent more likely to attend accident and emergency, according to HSJ analysis of newly published figures.
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NewsConcerns over junior doctors' acute care training
Newly qualified doctors do not feel they have the training to look after very ill patients, according to a new study.
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HSJ Local
Doncaster and Bassetlaw hospitals 'halves time' for GP correspondence
COMMERCIAL: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has halved its average time for providing clinical correspondence to GPs, because of a new dictation and delivery system, according to the product’s manufacturers.
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NewsReforms causing 'continued chaos' to frontline services - BMA
The government’s reforms of the NHS “continue to cause chaos” on the ground, doctors leaders said today.
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NewsNHS staff turnover figures shows workforce contracted by 2 per cent
The NHS workforce shrank by 2 per cent in the year to August, staff turnover figures analysed by HSJ reveal.