All Primary care articles – Page 158
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NewsPatients will move between commissioners, warns GP
Patients will “get on a bus” to find care denied by GP commissioners, a senior doctor has told MPs and peers.
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Comment'Major NHS reforms are driven by the heart, not the calculator'
Two things become apparent from recent parliamentary exchanges on the cost of anticipated large scale NHS redundancies.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: home front
‘We’re invading your privacy at home, and turning it into the outpatient clinic’
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LeaderGPs stung by maternity services rebuff
Who should commission maternity care? Health secretary Andrew Lansley has decided it should not be part of the “great majority” of services that GPs will eventually be responsible for.
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NewsMore Tribal health staff jobs now at risk
Consultancy Tribal has launched another round of redundancies in a review of its health business.
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NewsGP commissioner groups ‘will be size of PCTs’
One of NHS London’s leading GPs has said most of the capital’s commissioning groups will be the same size as primary care trusts.
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NewsEU paves way for overseas treatment of rare diseases
Primary care trusts will come under pressure to pay for patients to go abroad for treatments not provided by the NHS, under measures approved by the European parliament’s public health committee.
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NewsConcern over rate of PCT talent drain
MPs and GPs are concerned primary care trusts have already begun losing some of their best managers ahead of their proposed abolition.
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NewsPCT defends contraceptive pill decision
A scheme launched this week to allow girls as young as 13 to receive the contraceptive pill without their parents’ knowledge has been defended by the primary care trust running the service.
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NewsPay GPs more in poorer areas - public accounts committee
GPs should be offered more money to work in deprived areas as part of efforts to tackle the health gap between rich and poor, an influential group of MPs has said.
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NewsWorcestershire chief exec to retire via MARS
The chief executive of NHS Worcestershire is to step down at the end of the year via the health service’s lump sum pay off deal.
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NewsForeign firms will 'swoop on NHS'
Large foreign firms are “licking their lips” at the prospect of commissioning billions of pounds of services on behalf of GPs if controversial NHS reforms go ahead, Labour has claimed.
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NewsSeven provider arms achieve NHS trust status
Seven primary care trust provider arms took the next step towards becoming community foundation trusts when they become NHS trusts today.
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NewsNHS Commissioning Board to check foreign doctors' language skills
The new NHS Commissioning Board is to take responsibility for testing the language and clinical skills of foreign doctors from within the EU, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsCommissioning tools launched for neuro conditions and cardiac rehab
Three charities have developed an online support tool for GP consortia to commission neurological services.
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NewsGPs 'outraged' at central commissioning of maternity services
GPs say it is “outrageous” that maternity services will be commissioned centrally and not by local consortia.
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NewsGP consortia pathfinder guidelines published
Specific guidance on establishing GP consortia “pathfinders” has been sent to all strategic authority chief executives.
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NewsPCT chief exec steps down via MARS
A Shropshire chief executive is to leave his primary care trust at the end of the month via the government’s scheme to streamline management cuts.
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NewsHospital trusts hit by £90m fall in earnings
Hospital trusts lost out on income worth approximately £90m during the three months to June as a result of the Department of Health’s policy to restrict funding for emergency admissions.
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NewsNo evidence GP consortia will be better than PCTs
Primary care trusts should be allowed to “merge or demerge” into more successful commissioning organisations , rather than being swept away and replaced by smaller GP consortia, a think tank has said.