All Primary care articles – Page 221
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HSJ Knowledge
Providing healthcare on a small island
Some islanders 'would rather be crippled than go to the mainland for an operation'. Alison Moore reports on the goldfish-bowl world of remote island healthcare
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HSJ Knowledge
GP commissioning: the road less travelled
Performance is patchy in practice based commissioning, but involving clinicians is crucial to the world class programme
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Comment
Mark Britnell on world class commissioning so far
Morituri te salutamus, as the gladiators said in Roman amphitheatres: We who are about to die salute you.
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News
Service planners urged to enhance patient involvement
The Department of Health is urging primary care trust managers to seek the views of 'easy to overlook' groups such as homeless people, sex workers, people in rural areas and non-English speakers when shaping services.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS data protection and GPs
GPs must take compliance with privacy and data protection law seriously, writes Anne Crofts
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News
Low NHS waiting times masking wide variation in performance
The NHS has achieved historically low hospital waiting times but faces a battle to ensure the 18 week target is hit in every area by December.
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HSJ Knowledge
Welfare reform will overcome health inequalities
England has the highest health inequalities in Europe and income inequality is the major cause. Only reform of the welfare state can achieve a fairer distribution of well-being
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News
Health inequalities: wealthiest overfunded as the poor lose out
NHS services in the poorest and most needy parts of the country are being systematically underfunded to the benefit of the healthiest and wealthiest.Analysis by HSJ of the budgets allocated to GPs to pay for drugs and hospital care for their patients show that the wealthiest tenth of the population ...
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News
Johnson keeps the faith on inequalities
Health secretary Alan Johnson says the life expectancy gap is closing and he is promising the end of GP shortages. There is more to do but this is no time for a 'counsel of despair', he tells Rebecca Evans
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Comment
Michael Marmot on eliminating social injustice in health
Glasgow had a little more publicity than it might have welcomed when the report of the World Health Organisation's commission on social determinants of health, which I chaired, was published in August.
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News
PCT demands payout for Heathrow runway disturbance
A primary care trust will demand a major financial compensation package for the extra strain on resources if Heathrow Airport is granted a third runway.
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News
National NHS pay deal criticised
Nationally negotiated pay means commissioners' hands are tied from using bigger salaries to attract more good doctors, the Commons health select committee was told last week.
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News
Health inequalities could be forgotten as cash gets tight
Tighter NHS finances could mean the quest to reduce health inequalities will either get nasty - or be forgotten altogether.
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News
Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme
The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.
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News
Monitor chair calls on PCTs to set out plans for services
The coming years will see an increase in foundation trusts running primary care services, as well as culls of failing hospitals, executive chair of the regulator Monitor Bill Moyes has predicted.
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News
Alan Johnson wants fewer London PCTs
Alan Johnson has called for a debate about whether there are too many primary care trusts in London. The health secretary told HSJ that he didn't think having 31 PCTs covering London was 'the most sensible arrangement'.
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News
NHS alcohol misuse services are inadequate - National Audit Office
The NHS is not doing enough to stem effects of alcohol on health, the National Audit Office has warned.
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News
DH appoints autism adviser
Elaine Hill has been appointed as the specialist adviser for autism at the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health information: tackling the prostate cancer taboo
A play by Benjamin Zephaniah has helped tackle the stigma of prostate cancer. Suresh Rambaran explains how it came about
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient and public involvement leads to satisfaction
The draft NHS constitution has stirred only apathy in many quarters.