All Primary care articles – Page 213
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Dementia strategy: high hopes but who will pay?
The dementia strategy promises dedicated memory services in every town, but with only £150m over two years can primary care trusts afford the sophisticated teams this requires? Charlotte Santry reports
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NHS top-up rules set for rewrite as fear of litigation mounts
The government is expected to rewrite its guidance on implementing cancer czar Mike Richards' recommendations for top-up payments.Trusts have been observing the draft guidance since it was published in November.
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PCTs 'don't listen to charities'
Commissioners are failing to involve local voluntary organisations in decisions about services, a survey suggests.
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Out of hours provider to launch judicial review against PCT
A GP out of hours provider is to issue judicial review proceedings against a primary care trust after it missed out on a contract to continue providing the services.
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Liberal Democrats criticise government over liver transplants
The Liberal Democrats have accused the government of 'sitting on their hands' instead of doing something to stem the increase in alcohol related liver disease.
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HSJ Knowledge
Added values: improving learning disabilities services
People with learning disabilities are entitled to the same high quality healthcare as other patients, but serious cases of abuse and neglect suggest the NHS is far from meeting its obligations. Kaye McIntosh reports on the work now under way to turn this around
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New PCT provider chair in IT plea
The new chairman of the NHS Confederation's primary care trust provider forum, Matthew Winn, has announced his arrival with a plea for better IT systems in the sector.
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NHS trusts and commissioners at odds over tariff benefits
Hospital trusts and commissioners are disputing the impact of the new payment by results tariff on their income.
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Public health: a slim chance of healthier lives
The Change4Life initiative to combat child obesity is the latest in a long history of public strategies and, says Niall Dickson, success will rely on it grabbing public imagination
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NHS managers voice worries over 'Stalinist' SHA tactics
A ‘Stalinist’ culture is draining the NHS of experienced chief executives and making trusts insular and risk averse, senior leaders have told HSJ.
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London will review polyclinics
London's primary care trusts are to evaluate the first of their polyclinics to show whether the controversial developments are improving healthcare and access.They have set out their requirements for the external review, which follows cynicism about the model from some GPs.
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Double weak PCT gets new chairman
Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust has appointed a new chairman.
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Modest rise in GP extended hours
There has been a modest increase in the number of GP practices offering extended opening hours, monthly figures show.
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Steve Feast asks who will lead general practice in the future
The leadership structure of general practice is changing rapidly as fewer and fewer GP partners employ increasing numbers of salaried GPs. A new governance model is emerging.
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NHS top-up policy needs more scrutiny - RCN
The Royal College of Nursing is calling on strategic health authorities to step up scrutiny of top-up payments to ensure the new government policy 'does not result in a two tier NHS'.
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HSJ Knowledge
Weight loss surgery: who is cut out for it?
Assessment for weight loss surgery - such as gastric bypass or gastric banding - has to ask whether patients are committed to a healthier way of life, insists David Ashton
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HSJ Knowledge
The homeless and health
Initiatives to wrestle with the health consequences of homelessness are deprived of a coherent national strategy, say campaigners. Mark Gould hears the growing calls for the NHS to take the lead
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Mental health promotion: healthiness is all in the mind
Andrew McCullough argues public health messages need a makeover so people base their lifestyles on an understanding of wellbeing that ties mental and physical health together
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MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.
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Huge bill looms for patient choice information
The health service faces a bill of millions for reminding patients of their legal right to choose their own secondary care provider under the terms of the NHS constitution.