All Primary care articles – Page 223
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News
Annual health check case study: Salford
Salford is the only primary care trust to achieve double excellent scores, having improved its quality rating from good last year.
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Long Term Conditions Alliance faces merger
Members of the Long Term Conditions Alliance were this week set to agree to merge with a new patient representation body.
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West Sussex puts hospital plan on ice after backlash
A hospital reconfiguration plan has been suspended two years after controversial plans were first floated.
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Comment
Steve Feast on GPs as community leaders
When I was a GP, I was always amazed by the degree to which people remembered and acted on my advice. Frequently, the advice sought was not obviously related to any of my medical training or education.
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Comment
Maggie Rae on giving blood and glory
Yes, it is my fault - I think I am to blame for our terrible weather over the summer. I supported the introduction of the national system to monitor the effects of excessive heat over the summer months.
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HSJ Knowledge
Local community gets involved in NHS budgeting
In the UK's first health-related participatory budgeting event, residents in Thornhill, Southampton were invited to vote on which health and well-being projects they thought would best meet the health needs of the community.
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Comment
Media Watch: public health Jamie Oliver style
When a celebrity ventures into the inhospitable terrain of public health, the results tend to be predictably cringe-inducing.
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News
NHS could be sued under free market
Plans to create a European Union free market in public healthcare could open the health service to legal challenges from patients demanding treatments that are not available in the UK.
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News
PCTs failing to decommission services
Two out of three primary care trusts failed to decommission any services last year, showing the extent of the challenge they face to become world class commissioners.
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News
Killer health conditions go unseen by GPs
Only half of all patients with some killer conditions have been diagnosed and treated by their doctor.
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News
Picker Institute demands clarity for exceptional case decisions
Primary care trusts must communicate with patients more clearly about exceptional case decisions, the Picker Institute is demanding.
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PCTs call for continuing care help
Strategic health authorities are having to rescue primary care trusts flooded with 'continuing care' cases, a year after the government made it easier for service users to claim NHS funding.
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Leader
Calm before the storm as PCTs prepare to flex their muscles
This week's HSJ survey of the extent to which primary care trusts have been decommissioning services represents the calm before the storm of world class commissioning.
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News
Phil Hope gets beefed-up DH social care portfolio
The profile of social care has been given a potential boost with the appointment of Phil Hope as a minister of state for care services in the Department of Health.
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News
NHS integrated care bids face two-part assessment
Bidders will have to navigate a two-stage application process to take part in the Department of Health's integrated care pilot scheme.
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Foundation trusts get £300m in a year-end spending rush
Foundation trusts were handed up to £300m in advance payments by primary care trusts towards the end of the last financial year, HSJ has been told. The prepayments were made as some primary care trusts struggled to keep 2007-08 surpluses below 'control totals' set by the Department of Health.
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Comment
Mark Johnson on what Darzi means for NHS innovation
Lord Darzi's review puts quality at the heart of the NHS. This vision can only be achieved through new forms of partnership working between the public, private and third sectors.
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Comment
Virginia Beardshaw on children's speech and language services
Child health has always been a minority interest in the NHS. And few managers have moved up the career ladder on the strength of their achievements in the niche field of children's speech and language.
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Comment
Clinical leadership in out of hours services
The Department of Health has signalled that it may allow practice-based commissioning consortiums to take over commissioning out of hours services. Rick Stern explains why this would be good for patients and budgets
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HSJ Knowledge
Health inequalities: travelling communities
The alarming levels of health inequalities experienced by travelling communities can be better understood and tackled by health professionals, says Richard O'Neill