All Primary care articles – Page 242
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News
Practice managers seek lobby muscle
GP practice managers are attempting to establish their own national representative body to lobby on behalf of the profession and develop a code of ethics that members can sign as a mark of their professionalism.
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HSJ Knowledge
A check-up for nurses
A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1
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HSJ Knowledge
A check-up for nurses
A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1
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HSJ Knowledge
Learning to be unloved
In the second article in our series on coaching, Isobel Gowan describes her work with a GP who is new to leadership
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HSJ Knowledge
Health screening: from talk to action
The importance of preventive diagnosis and screening programmes are now being talked up by the prime minister himself. Joshua Rowe looks at how they are already saving money - and lives
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HSJ Knowledge
Health screening: from talk to action
Preventive diagnosis and screening programmes can improve patient care and save the NHS money, writes Joshua Rowe
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HSJ Knowledge
Maggie Rae on Premier League performance
Do names matter? Since arriving back in the NHS and PCT land, I haven't had much chance to think about titles or the name of our organisation.
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News
Trust plans to scrap jobs and shelve units
Trafford Healthcare trust has launched a turnaround plan in a bid to avoid a £7m deficit next year.
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HSJ Knowledge
GPs must see sense on hours
New proposals for extended working hours for GPs have provoked a storm of protest - but doctors should take a careful look at the benefits, argues Alastair Henderson
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News
Doctors move to vote yes, under protest
GPs will be persuaded to vote yes to the government's offer on extended hours, according to a poll of GPs.
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News
Ministers vs GPs: how did it come to this?
The GP contract talks have been played out for the public, with both sides taking to the airwaves. Ingrid Torjesen explores why a couple of extra hours a week has created such a conflict
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News
Johnson irks committee as he ducks careers queries
Health secretary Alan Johnson has rankled MPs by refusing to answer questions at a health select committee inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers.Mr Johnson batted off a series of questions about junior doctors' training, saying he could not comment before the Department of Health's formal response to the Tooke report.
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News
Ministers press for more child palliative care
Ministers have made it clear they expect primary care trusts to spend more on children's palliative care.
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News
Councils given chance to offload burdens
An independent review body has launched an investigation into the factors that hinder partnership work between health and social care services.
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Comment
Whither NHS reform?
Richard Vize makes a sweeping dig at the British Medical Association and GPs, your traditional villains, and will probably get a quick laugh from the cheap seats. But has HSJ missed a point here?
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News
minimum gp core hours
The Department of Health has no plans to set a minimum number of consulting hours GP practices should provide during their contracted core hours. As the government plans to set a minimum threshold for hours practices must be available for appointments outside the hours of 8am to 6.30pm Monday to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Smoking: 60 years of kicking the habit
Attitudes to public health and smoking have evolved enormously since the NHS was established 60 years ago, as Su Xavier explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Smoking: 60 years of kicking the habit
Attitudes to public health and smoking have evolved enormously since the NHS was established 60 years ago, as Su Xavier explains
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Comment
Media Watch: GP opening hours
Doctors were in the spotlight this week, after the British Medical Association advised GPs to accept a new contract that means practices will open for longer.
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News
PCTs 'would gain power by a constitution'
An NHS constitution would address the 'woefully inadequate' relationship between commissioners and patients, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has claimed.