Primary Care – Page 268
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary
When HSJ senior features writer Emma Dent was asked to join an Oxfam and Unison delegation to poverty-stricken Malawi, she got a lot more than she bargained. Read her day-by-day account of the trip here.
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Stephen Thornton on spreading innovation
'The journey from idea to implementation is not an easy one. We need to make sure the ideas we use are the ones fired by the strongest flame and that there are many mirrors within reach.'
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New research could predict how NHS policies will perform
A new approach to estimating and comparing how selected interventions affect NHS productivity could help predict how policies will perform before they are rolled out, according to the Health Foundation.
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Saying goodnight to chronic insomnia
A project that aims to help.people with insomnia by promoting a range of treatment options is being supported by the Health Foundation through its Engaging with Quality in Primary Care award scheme.
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Make a splash with your merger: planning for success
To succeed in the mergers and acquisitions game, trusts must plan carefully, say Martin Jacobs and Steve Saunders
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Ken Jarrold on a 'divided house'
'The NHS today is a house divided against itself. On one hand ministers, civil servants and many managers (if only by association); on the other, everybody else'
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Age discrimination: understanding the law
While cases are still being heard in the courts and employee victories are making headlines, Shirley Wright and Adele Aspden warn the NHS against forcing any employees to retire
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Quit-smoking figures reveal social divide
The number of people using NHS services to quit smoking fell by 10 per cent last year.
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Deficit crisis: ground won for training must be held in face of cash battles
'The government's service-level agreement - a response to criticism of the 10 per cent cut in training by SHAs last year - looks to be a dead letter within days of being published'
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Primary care trusts charged with rewriting £300m script
The National Audit Office has urged primary care trusts.to use generic medicines to save money. Oliver Evans hears from the leaders who will be expected to drive the savings in the milieu of restructuring and inform GP prescribing behaviour right down the line
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Partnership working needs financial conviction
'Anxious to move on from rows over cost-shunting, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has pledged to champion partnership working, pooled budgets and joint commissioning'
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Process pathways - the answer to 18 weeks?
Traditional efforts to improve efficiency and reduce waste in the NHS have focused on redesigning disease- or condition-based pathways. While this approach reaps the rewards of improved flow and quality of care, improvements are often on a micro scale and do little to attract investment into service improvement at a ...
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Ruth Hussey on creating social capital
'Social capital consists of.connections between family, friends, neighbours, the people we work with, and membership of community and civic organisations.'
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New age networks
In just two years, NHS Networks has established itself as a generator of co-operation and innovation. Edna Robinson and Sue Cavill report
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'Damning' review slams family planning services
The results of a review into contraceptive services in England are a 'damning indictment of contraceptive provision' in the NHS, according to sexual health campaigners.
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Your Humble Servant: dead man walking
‘It’s difficult to know who to ingratiate yourself with, which policies might survive and which we should backpedal on.’
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PCTs grapple with grey areas of GP-led commissioning
PBC has the potential to increase the quality and range of services available to patients, but PCTs must exercise caution to avoid conflicts of interest. Alison Moore reports
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Choose and book incentives continue after poor uptake
Incentives for choose and book will be extended for another year as GP practices missed uptake targets.
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NAO names inefficient prescribers in £200m drug waste
GPs squander more than £200m a year on overpriced prescriptions and drugs that go unused, a National Audit Office report has revealed.