All GPs articles – Page 89
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NewsNHS Direct offers services to GPs
NHS Direct could start booking GP appointments after starting talks with Surrey based consortium EsyDoc.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe next phase in medical revalidation
A decade in the making, the revalidation procedure for the health profession is almost ready for implementation. General Medical Council chief executive Niall Dickson explains the next phase.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: health mogul
‘Family doctor to health mogul? It’s what my patients want for me’
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HSJ KnowledgeHow telehealth technology can enhance the quality of national healthcare
Scotland has the potential to become a world leader in mainstreaming telehealth. But despite concerns about a rapidly ageing population, progress has been slow. James Ferguson, lead clinician at Scottish Centre for Telehealth, explains what the NHS needs to do and why to move things forward.
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NewsGP services face scrutiny under competition system
Community services provided by GPs worth nearly £400m will have to go through a competition approval process as part of the transition to consortium commissioning, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
GPs expected to bust Liverpool PCT’s prescribing budget
FINANCE: The primary care trust has reported that its GPs are due to overspend on prescribing budgets by £5.7m.
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HSJ Local
Trusts court GPs ahead of consortia engagement
WORKFORCE: Hospital trusts in London are investing in courting GPs ahead of policy changes which will see consortia take over commissioning NHS services.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool PCT plans new health centre
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has launched a public consultation on proposals to build a new health centre.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool PCT sets out finance challenges for GP commissioners
FINANCE: At the first meeting of the PCT’s interim GP commission board, held in December, the PCT’s head of information and intelligence described the key features of the city’s £900m commissioning spend.
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HSJ Local
East Lancs PCT gets GPs on board with public health campaign
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust held an event in January to bring local GPs together to discuss the PCT’s “role in supporting communities to live longer, healthier lives” ahead of the transition to commissioning consortia.
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HSJ Local
NHS South Staffordshire behind on LTC targets
PERFORMANCE: NHS South Staffordshire is significantly behind on strategic targets for long term conditions.
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News'Unsatisfactory' doctor competency regulation criticised
There are weaknesses in the current plans for regulating doctors to ensure they are fit to practise, MPs have said.
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NewsNHS reforms 'need patient voice'
The radical healthcare system reforms must be amended to give patients a stronger say over their local services, a group of leading health charities have said.
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HSJ Local
GPs appointed to clinical cabinet to find more savings at Oxleas Foundation Trust
FINANCE: A primary care trust has appointed two GPs to try and top the £1m of savings negotiated with the mental health trust in 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
Northumberland mental health trust seeks GP relationships
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust is seeking to develop its relationship with local GPs, anticipating the move to GP led commissioning.
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NewsExclusive: Lib Dem MPs closer to opposition on health reform
Liberal Democrat MPs are more closely aligned with Labour than with Conservatives on health policy, new research into MPs’ opinions reveals.
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HSJ KnowledgeA patient’s perspective on the NHS
I am a big fan of the NHS. The central tenet of access to good healthcare based on clinical need as opposed to ability to pay has always seemed to me to be a core feature of a decent, civilised society.
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NewsReforms are a 'new deal', PM tells GPs
Prime minister David Cameron has spearheaded the government’s latest attempt to rally GPs behind consortium commissioning.
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NewsRigorous approach needed to improve QOF payments, report says
The Audit Commission has found significant variation among primary care trusts’ management of GP performance payments.
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NewsProsecute staff for neglect, say experts
NHS staff who neglect patients should be prosecuted in light of scandals such as Mid Staffordshire, experts said today.