All Primary care articles – Page 234
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News
Summer of suspense for PCTs awaiting funding allocations
Primary care trusts will need to wait until at least October to hear what their funding will be for the next two years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Drifting apart: why health inequalities are getting bigger
Is it fair to expect the NHS alone to stop health inequalities widening when they are shaped by so many factors in society - income, housing, education - or is the health service failing in its basic responsibilities?
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Leader
The size of the mountain PCTs must climb is becoming clear
With only a few months to go before primary care trusts have to submit their strategic plans, the scale of the world class commissioning challenge is becoming clear.
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News
Data shortfalls hinder world class commissioning efforts
Primary care trust managers have warned that poor data is preventing them making progress on world class commissioning.PCTs told HSJ they felt they had no choice but to commission outside firms for 'social marketing' research on the health needs of their local population. Others said they thought data on services ...
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News
Councils warn over planned PCT merger
Council leaders have attacked proposals by NHS London to merge primary care trust commissioning functions in the capital.
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News
Public health gets lift from social marketing
The Department of Health is to boost access to public health training and population profiling tools to help embed social marketing principles in health improvement work.
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News
Massive variation in Ritalin prescribing
There is a 23-fold difference in the rate at which children in different parts of England are prescribed Ritalin to control their behaviour, figures seen by HSJ reveal.
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Comment
Alyson Morley on the push for polyclinics
Do polyclinics spell the end of the patient-doctor relationship in favour of faceless big business intrusion into health services? Or are they the must-have health facility of the future?
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Comment
Simon Fradd on Darzi vs the GPs
Sixty years ago, the medical profession took on Nye Bevan and lost - are we about to do the same thing again?
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Comment
Andrew Jones on topping up NHS care
The government's announcement that it plans to review co-payments and whether they should be allowed in the NHS surprised me because it asks the wrong question.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data collection: Big Brother isn't watching you
Health information has not kept pace with population change. Ruth Thorlby and Veena Raleigh look at efforts to improve collection
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News
GPs open up to extended access target
Almost a quarter of primary care trust areas have now hit the Department of Health's target to extend GP opening hours, latest figures reveal.
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News
Darzi calls for skills to tackle challenge of lifestyle diseases
Primary and community care organisations must strengthen their skills and infrastructure to tackle 'lifestyle diseases' such as obesity, Lord Darzi told an HSJ conference this week.
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News
Cancer firm expects NHS to fall short
A private company has invested around £30m in three new private cancer centres, underlining its belief that the NHS will fail to meet the rising demand for cancer treatments.
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News
PCTs will have veto on Darzi integrated care pilots
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts will be expected to take a lead role in setting up and supporting integrated care pilots.
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News
CBI warning on stop-start procurement projects
Primary care trusts that drag out procurements are hiking up the cost of schemes to taxpayers, the Confederation of British Industry has warned.
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News
Move sex health provision to community says charity
The Terrence Higgins Trust has called on primary care trusts to apply Lord Darzi's access reforms to sexual health services to improve an unacceptably outmoded system.
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HSJ KnowledgeMaking sense of child disability
How many disabled children are there in England? This sounds a relatively straightforward question. Service improvements for children with disability are a government priority and require a robust evidence base.
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News
Shift in IT policy as trusts told they can develop their own system
The Department of Health has signalled a shift in the national programme for IT that will see it supporting NHS organisations that want to develop their own systems.
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News
Meldrum urges doctors to take leading role in reform
Doctors must 'roll up their sleeves' and get involved in Lord Darzi's healthcare reforms or risk being marginalised, irrelevant and ignored, according to the British Medical Association chairman.