Primary Care – Page 100
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NewsCameron announces new funding for GP practices to open for longer
GPs will be offered money to open their surgeries seven days a week and out of office hours under proposals unveiled by the prime minister today.
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SupplementsCritical point for checks − an HSJ/LGC supplement
How to increase the uptake of NHS Health Check
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NewsHunt: GPs must improve elderly care
Jeremy Hunt has called on GPs to “rediscover family doctoring”, and again said he wants to make changes to their contracts to encourage them to “take better care of older patients and ensure that fewer of them end up in hospital”.
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News'More time' on admin than patients
Doctors spend more than twice as much time on paperwork as they do on home visits, a survey suggests.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow the NHS will look in 2030
The service’s future depends on new technology and public attitudes
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NewsPioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.
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CommentPrimary care reform: culture must trump the rules
How the NHS can secure successful reform of primary care
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NewsHealth experts to 'mine' GP notes
British researchers have begun work analysing doctors’ notes in a “big data” project which it is hoped could revolutionise healthcare and treatments.
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HSJ LocalLondon GP representatives oppose 'radical' primary care change
STRUCTURE: The organisation representing GPs in London is publishing a vision for the future of their services, emphasising the need to “build on the strengths and values” of existing providers, rather than revolutionary change.
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NewsWidespread fall in GP morale, BMA poll finds
Family doctors feel increasingly fed up, overworked, tied up in red tape and worried that “dubious” government targets are stopping them treating needier patients, a British Medical Association survey has found.
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HSJ KnowledgePutting an end to high weekend mortality rates
CCGs and providers cane work together to deliver safer care 24/7
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NewsA&E attendance figures cast doubt on Hunt's out of hours theory
Patients of GP practices that remain directly responsible for out of hours primary care may attend accident and emergency more often than others, analysis suggests. However, the research also indicates they may be admitted to hospital as an emergency less regularly.
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HSJ Knowledge'The system needs to get smarter' − achieving 24/7 care
The NHS fails to meet people’s OOH needs
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LeaderGeneral practice is the NHS’s great strength, which it has to review
Reviewing the role of GPs will be worthwhile
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HSJ PartnersHow Buckinghamshire is working towards seamless integrated care
The trust is using new technology for better patient transisitons
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NewsExclusive: College plans back to work scheme to ease GP shortage
The Royal College of GPs is proposing to set up a back to work scheme to create a “short term surge” in GP numbers and help fill what it says is an urgent shortage.
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NewsInterview: New GP leader condemns PM's A&E plan
The chair elect of the Royal College of GPs has condemned the prime minister’s £500m accident and emergency bailout plan as “voodoo med-economics” and said it was driven by “political priorities ahead of a forthcoming general election”.
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NewsRevealed: Hospitals' share of spend grows as GPs' slice shrinks
The proportion of NHS funding spent on hospital care increased in 2012-13, with general practice slightly reducing its share, official figures obtained by HSJ indicate.
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NewsThornton urges 'old guard' to take responsibility for Mid Staffs
The current leadership of the NHS should take “complete” responsibility for the culture of fear that led to the care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, the outgoing chief executive of the Health Foundation has told HSJ.
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NewsNHS England 'working with' GP firm over Merseyside practice concerns
NHS England has acknowledged concerns raised about services at some of the 22 practices in Liverpool and Sefton which were taken over by a GP-led company in the spring.