All Primary care articles – Page 196
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NewsDH scraps deadline for PCT provider arm strategies
The Department of Health has scrapped its centrally set deadline for primary care trusts to create provider arm strategies. It comes amid fears of PCTs obsessed by organisational structure making poor decisions.
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NewsAmbulance services: urgent attention for non-emergency care
Complex forces at work in urgent care mean too many costly ambulance trips are being taken by non-emergency patients. Dave West analyses the figures and looks at the explanations
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CommentMedia Watch: GP access and swine flu panic
Proof that the Department of Health’s drive to improve GP access was working arrived from an unlikely source this week.
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NewsMatching best PCT performers could cut NHS costs by 20pc
The NHS could make savings of up to 20 per cent if all primary care trusts spent as efficiently as the best, analysis by HSJ reveals.
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News‘Unprecedented’ review by PCT finds progress after Mid Staffs scandal
South Staffordshire primary care trust has published what it calls an “unprecedented” review of care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust, after installing its own staff to check on standards.
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NewsCall to extend clinical outcome data on choose and book
The Department of Health’s GP czar David Colin-Thomé has called for clinical outcome data to be included in the NHS’s electronic booking system choose and book.
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HSJ KnowledgePCT commissioners' fertility conference video archive
Is wishing to start a family a medical need or lifestyle choice? This is just one of the questions facing commissioners.
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NewsPublic consultation on complementary therapies opens
Regulation of herbal medicine, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine will be considered by a public consultation that has been launched by the Department of Health.
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NewsDH defends GP earnings
The Department of Health defended the GP wage structure after it was revealed that some GPs are earning more than £300,000 a year.
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NewsTories 'planning NHS cutbacks'
Patient choice may be restricted under plans mooted by Conservative leader David Cameron to squeeze the NHS budget if his party wins the next general election.
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NewsEngland swine flu cases may have 'reached a plateau'
The occurrence of swine flu cases in England may be levelling out, the government has claimed.
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HSJ KnowledgeGet a load of me: the biobank boom takes shape
The UK Biobank was sold as being a far reaching study into the world of genetics, but how will its potential for altruism fare against its potential for commercialism?
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NewsTower Hamlets PCT works with local mosques
Mosques across London’s worst-hit primary care trust have played a central role in disseminating information about swine flu.
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NewsPCT rebranding still has a long way to go
Getting local people to understand the role of primary care trusts has proved difficult, so has the NHS rebranding helped? HSJ polled the public to find out
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NewsLords raise questions on swine flu preparedness
The Lords science and technology committee has highlighted “serious questions” about the UK’s preparedness for swine flu.
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NewsNHS must improve drink plans - MPs
MPs have called on the Department of Health to do more to tackle the increasing level of alcohol misuse in England.
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NewsLIFT-promoting firm is left in ‘disarray’
The government-owned company established to promote private investment in primary care is in “disarray”, according to private sector contractors.
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NewsHealthcare watchdogs could suspend NHS inspections during crisis
The Care Quality Commission plans to suspend a “whole suite of activities” such as hygiene inspections if the flu pandemic worsens.
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NewsPCT outbreak plans show variety of coping mechanisms
Primary care trusts in the worst affected areas have found a variety of ways of dealing with the outbreak.
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LeaderNo time for complacency with the shape of the system at stake
The disagreement between the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and primary care trusts over guidance on saving money presages a big debate facing the NHS over the balance between central and local power in the recession.