All Primary care articles – Page 225
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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
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NHS apprentices - as seen on TV
In an NHS scheme inspired by The Apprentice, 12 candidates competed for a management trainee post. Is this the future of recruitment?
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Naomi Chambers on health and education
With all the emphasis on world class commissioning, it is important to remember that primary care trust boards are tasked with improving the health of the population they serve, not just with the delivery of healthcare.
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Equitable access to primary care
Andrew Daly explains how the Department of Health's equitable access to primary medical care programme is working to improve patient care
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Virgin grounds proposals to run GP surgeries
Virgin Group has effectively put on hold its ambitious plans to take over and run GP surgeries, casting doubt on the prospects for private involvement in primary care.
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NHS managers told to take ownership of finance
The pending reorganisation of the Welsh health service should be used to improve financial management, the auditor general for Wales has said.
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Trusts on edge as draft payment by results tariff runs into trouble
The Department of Health could be heading for a re-run of the chaos that saw the publication of the 2006-07 payment by results tariff just one week before the start of the financial year.A draft tariff for 2009-10 is being road tested in secret in the West Midlands, but sources ...
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DH faces turmoil over tariff regime
Is there going to be tariff turmoil for the second time in three years?
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HSJ KnowledgeThe potential of integrated data
As data quality improves, GP extraction services become available and doctors become more adept at commissioning, it is likely more commissioning decisions will rely on the integration of primary and secondary care datasets.
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Prizes for world class commissioning winners
Primary care trusts that are successful in world class commissioning may win the right to name the salaries of their senior managers and non-executive directors.
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Out of hours care standards to be applied to urgent care
National standards for out of hours providers could be extended to cover some in-hours services.
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PCT campaigns against domestic violence
Hull teaching primary care trust is to attempt to tackle the problems of domestic violence by using a social marketing campaign aimed at male perpetrators of attacks.
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Charities support Labour on health interventionism
Charities and activists have told Labour not to shy away from tackling access to GP services and to ignore jibes about the 'nanny state'.
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Smoking supplement: fired up
Stopping smoking is the single most important thing smokers can do to improve their current and future health.
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Catching mental illness early
New primary care teams are helping to catch people early in the spectrum of mental illness. Stuart Shepherd explains
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HIV services: caring for older patients
As people with HIV/AIDS live longer, services must adapt to meet the needs of more patients and the first generation of HIV-positive pensioners. Emma Dent reports
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Giving up smoking is hard to do
How can stop smoking services attract people from ethnic minorities? NICE guidance may offer the answer, writes Rosie Cameron
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Charities warn on information prescriptions scheme
Charities in information prescription pilots have warned the scheme risks failure unless it is mandatory and supported by incentives.
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Stop-smoking case studies: quitters can win
Now the most motivated ex-smokers have stubbed out their last cigarette, Ingrid Torjesen finds out how services are reaching out to the less enthusiastic would-be quitters