Primary Care – Page 244
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HSJ Knowledge
GPs must see sense on hours
New proposals for extended working hours for GPs have provoked a storm of protest - but doctors should take a careful look at the benefits, argues Alastair Henderson
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News
Doctors move to vote yes, under protest
GPs will be persuaded to vote yes to the government's offer on extended hours, according to a poll of GPs.
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News
Councils given chance to offload burdens
An independent review body has launched an investigation into the factors that hinder partnership work between health and social care services.
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Trust plans to scrap jobs and shelve units
Trafford Healthcare trust has launched a turnaround plan in a bid to avoid a £7m deficit next year.
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News
Ministers press for more child palliative care
Ministers have made it clear they expect primary care trusts to spend more on children's palliative care.
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Johnson irks committee as he ducks careers queries
Health secretary Alan Johnson has rankled MPs by refusing to answer questions at a health select committee inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers.Mr Johnson batted off a series of questions about junior doctors' training, saying he could not comment before the Department of Health's formal response to the Tooke report.
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Comment
Whither NHS reform?
Richard Vize makes a sweeping dig at the British Medical Association and GPs, your traditional villains, and will probably get a quick laugh from the cheap seats. But has HSJ missed a point here?
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News
minimum gp core hours
The Department of Health has no plans to set a minimum number of consulting hours GP practices should provide during their contracted core hours. As the government plans to set a minimum threshold for hours practices must be available for appointments outside the hours of 8am to 6.30pm Monday to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Smoking: 60 years of kicking the habit
Attitudes to public health and smoking have evolved enormously since the NHS was established 60 years ago, as Su Xavier explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Smoking: 60 years of kicking the habit
Attitudes to public health and smoking have evolved enormously since the NHS was established 60 years ago, as Su Xavier explains
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News
PCTs 'would gain power by a constitution'
An NHS constitution would address the 'woefully inadequate' relationship between commissioners and patients, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has claimed.
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Comment
Media Watch: GP opening hours
Doctors were in the spotlight this week, after the British Medical Association advised GPs to accept a new contract that means practices will open for longer.
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News
Mayor flags up his blueprint for the future of London's health
Preventable inequalities in health are unacceptable in a leading world city and have huge economic and social consequences, according to London mayor Ken Livingstone.
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News
Primary care leaders call GP resistance 'unhelpful'
Primary care leaders have joined the argument over extended hours after GPs warned they may refuse to take part in local audits on opening times.
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Comment
The BMA is standing between patients and a better service
Not content with grossly misrepresenting the government's position on opening hours, the British Medical Association has now resorted to sabotage to block modernisation of our primary care services.
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Comment
Sophie Christie on the Lucentis drug controversy
The latest media celebration of how terrible the NHS is gathers pace. The press has been reporting that people are going blind because they are being refused a drug (as opposed to going blind because they have a degenerative disease). Yet the fourth estate seems to be missing a far ...
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News
Dr Foster admits flaws in east London report
Doctor Foster Intelligence has admitted that a £47,000 report it prepared for a London council was seriously flawed, following an investigation by the information company's own ethics committee.
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Comment
A case for extending GP hours
Changing the way GP surgeries are managed could help improve access for patients who are excluded by the current system, argues Jim Ford
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HSJ Knowledge
Risk prediction network created
A new risk prediction network has been established to engage health and social care groups - including commissioners, clinicians, community matrons and NHS and social care managers - to share ideas, experiences and knowledge on different methods of predicting and stratifying risk of local health populations.
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HSJ Knowledge
Race for Health progress report with calendar and cookbook
The 2008 Race for Health progress report is out. Recipes for Success is published as a calendar and cookbook. The calendar combines 12 recipes celebrating food and culture from black and minority ethnic communities with 12 case studies of good practice from Race for Health primary care trusts. A faith ...