All Primary care articles – Page 244
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Comment
The BMA is standing between patients and a better service
Not content with grossly misrepresenting the government's position on opening hours, the British Medical Association has now resorted to sabotage to block modernisation of our primary care services.
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News
Dr Foster admits flaws in east London report
Doctor Foster Intelligence has admitted that a £47,000 report it prepared for a London council was seriously flawed, following an investigation by the information company's own ethics committee.
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Comment
A case for extending GP hours
Changing the way GP surgeries are managed could help improve access for patients who are excluded by the current system, argues Jim Ford
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HSJ Knowledge
Scottish dementia network launches newsletter
The Tayside managed care network for dementia has produced the first issue of its new quarterly newsletter, available now on the network's page in the register.
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HSJ Knowledge
Scottish dementia network launches newsletter
The Tayside managed care network for dementia has produced the first issue of its new quarterly newsletter, available now on the network's page in the register.
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HSJ Knowledge
Risk prediction network created
A new risk prediction network has been established to engage health and social care groups - including commissioners, clinicians, community matrons and NHS and social care managers - to share ideas, experiences and knowledge on different methods of predicting and stratifying risk of local health populations.
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HSJ Knowledge
Risk prediction network created
A new risk prediction network has been established to engage health and social care groups - including commissioners, clinicians, community matrons and NHS and social care managers - to share ideas, experiences and knowledge on different methods of predicting and stratifying risk of local health populations.
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HSJ Knowledge
Race for Health progress report with calendar and cookbook
The 2008 Race for Health progress report is out. Recipes for Success is published as a calendar and cookbook. The calendar combines 12 recipes celebrating food and culture from black and minority ethnic communities with 12 case studies of good practice from Race for Health primary care trusts. A faith ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Race for Health progress report with calendar and cookbook
The 2008 Race for Health progress report is out. Recipes for Success is published as a calendar and cookbook. The calendar combines 12 recipes celebrating food and culture from black and minority ethnic communities with 12 case studies of good practice from Race for Health primary care trusts. A faith ...
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS team wins Investors in Children accreditation
Staff at Hart Lodge, part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust, have become the first NHS child learning disability team to gain Investors in Children accreditation.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS team wins Investors in Children accreditation
Staff at Hart Lodge, part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust, have become the first NHS child learning disability team to gain Investors in Children accreditation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Thousands now book to see GPs on web
More than 56,000 people booked appointments on-line at their GP practice last month with one in seven practices now able to offer the service.
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HSJ Knowledge
QNI
Staff in the NHS might be expected to be better at looking after their own health than most people. They have health promotion information to hand, they either are, or work closely with, clinicians, and they are usually provided with excellent occupational health services. Perhaps equally important, they are regularly ...
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on
One of my enduring impressions of the NHS is that of mythology. Not the classical Greek type representing animal/human chimaeras but perhaps equally contradictory.There are a number of platitudes which people love to cite: “free at the point of delivery”, “the GP as gatekeeper”, and first prize has to go ...
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on challenging NHS rhetoric
One of my enduring impressions of the NHS is that of mythology. Not the classical Greek type representing animal/human chimaeras but perhaps equally contradictory. There are a number of platitudes which people love to cite: “free at the point of delivery”, “the GP as gatekeeper”, and first prize has to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Paul Jennings on bringing the foundation trust model to PCTs
Creating a membership organisation has helped one primary care trust increase public involvement in decision-making
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HSJ Knowledge
Paul Jennings on bringing the foundation trust model to PCTs
Creating a membership organisation has helped one primary care trust increase public involvement in decision-making
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HSJ Knowledge
Electronic consultation cuts hospital referrals in Bradford by half
Clinicians in Bradford, West Yorkshire, are piloting a scheme to cut referrals to secondary care and improve the care pathway for chronic kidney disease. The scheme relies on an 'e-consultation' tool that allows primary and secondary care clinicians to communicate electronically.
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HSJ Knowledge
Alan Maynard on hard questions for NICE
Everyone accepts that resources are scarce and that rationing in the NHS is ubiquitous. Rationing involves depriving patients of care from which they might benefit and would like to have. The most explicit instrument for rationing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is the National Institute for Health and Clinical ...
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News
Sharp rise in untreated hypertension
The annual health survey for England has revealed that 2006 saw a large rise in the number of people with high blood pressure going untreated.