All GPs articles – Page 91
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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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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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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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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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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.
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News60% of doctors 'disagree with reforms'
Six out of 10 doctors disagree with the government’s reforms of the NHS and many do not believe they will improve patient care, according to a poll for the Royal College of GPs.
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NewsRCS warns quality of care could decline
Standards of patient care may be compromised if GPs focus on “the lowest price” rather than quality when it comes to health spending, the Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeSetting a course for consortia: an HSJ and doctors.net.uk discussion
In mid-December, just ahead of the release of the 2011-12 operating framework and the response to the consultation on the Liberating the NHS white paper, HSJ and doctors.net.uk held a roundtable debate on consortium commissioning.
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NewsThousands of cancer patients 'denied radiotherapy'
Tens of thousands of people with cancer are missing out on potentially curative radiotherapy, it was claimed today.
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NewsDH will 'co-produce' authorisation process, GPs told
Pathfinder commissioning consortia have been told the NHS Commissioning Board will “co produce” with them its authorisation process for the groups, HSJ has learned.
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CommentThe Health Bill - rising to the challenge
The Health Bill sets out a vision for commissioning where innovative consortia of GPs take the lead in transforming our health and social care systems from being demand-led and provider-oriented to being patient-centred and outcomes-focused.
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NewsPrime minister writes to GPs
Prime minister David Cameron has written to GPs explaining the reasons for the government’s reforms of commissioning.