All Primary care articles – Page 225
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Building bridges to beat diabetes
Confronted with rising numbers of people with type 2 diabetes, a New Zealand health board forged a cross-sectoral alliance under the banner of Let's Beat Diabetes. Chris Mules, Chad Paraone and Paul Stephenson report
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Primary numbers
Commissioning is no longer just about PCTs checking the invoices from the acute trust or the ISTC. Andy Cowper investigates the key role of information in commissioning in primary care.
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News
Tories: Labour using NHS money for votes
The government is 'manipulating' the NHS funding allocation formula to 'shore up' votes in areas loyal to Labour, the Conservatives have claimed.
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Knowledge and Skills
The NHS must support managers and clinicians to develop skills and knowledge to use information more effectively. Andy Cowper reports
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Equipping the service to maximise information
The NHS Information Centre has a wide range of products and services designed to support commissioners.
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Informed commissioning
Ministers want to transform NHS commissioning from a sleepy pussycat into a sleek, sharp-toothed tiger. And good-quality information will be the key to success. Andy Cowper reports.
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Welsh health minister Edwina Hart moves centre stage
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has axed the internal market and put herself centre stage in a wholesale reform of the country's NHS.
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News
Insurance model on the cards for elderly care
The Conservatives are considering insurance-based schemes to fund care for the elderly as a way to defuse the 'demographic time bomb'.
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The Honest Broker
In an era of patient choice and world class commissioning, The NHS Information Centre believes its role is to be the 'honest broker' of the data needed to drive improvements in healthcare. Andy Cowper reports
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News
New body set to improve public health profile
A 6,000-strong campaigning organisation has been formed from the merger of two existing public health groups.
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News
Poor PCT networking holding back NHS reforms
Poor networking and planning by primary care trusts is holding back reform of urgent and emergency care, a major Healthcare Commission review has found.
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Auditing diabetes prevalence in Salford
The NHS Information Centre’s range of products and services are all intended to support better clinical practice. The National Diabetes Audit proved invaluable in Salford, Greater Manchester. Dr Bob Young, consultant diabetologist at the city’s Hope Hospital, said the audit highlighted a much smaller number of people than expected in ...
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Supporting NICE in assessing delivery on advice
The NHS Information Centre's prescribing support unit produces data that allows the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to review current patterns of care; to estimate the potential cost of recommendations; and to monitor the implementation of their guidance.
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News
Government sets out health strategy at home and abroad
The Department of Health has launched a government-wide strategy to tackle global health problems.
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Comment
Peter Reader on medical revalidation
As a GP, it seems to me that I have been waiting for a significant chunk of my active medical career for revalidation to finally happen, and I am not that fresh off the starting blocks.
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News
VSO through the eyes of a health management volunteer
In her regular column from Cambodia, Patricia Sloan looks at how VSO has evolved over the last 50 years
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Supplements
Magic touch: the revolution in information sharing
For the next stage of healthcare improvement, better and more timely use of information is not just important, it is vital.
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NHS social marketing: the hard sell
Public services in the UK have been slow to develop social marketing. Can the NHS reclaim the term so it is no longer thought of simply as spin? Caroline White reports
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Comment
David Peat on the NHS learning curve
You know how you sometimes tend to look at long-past events through rose-tinted glasses, perhaps foolishly allowing yourself to think everything was somehow better 'back in the good old days'?
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Getting to the bottom of NHS diabetes care
Diabetes is on the rise and is estimated to be responsible for more than one in 10 deaths in England - so why are more GPs not detecting and monitoring it, asks Emma Dent