All Primary care articles – Page 254
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Practice-based commissioning: poor data may scupper efforts
The future of practice-based commissioning is in jeopardy unless the quality of data available to commissioners improves, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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GP2GP
It’s a scenario familiar to all GPs: a patient with complex problems registers with the practice and has a crumpled list of their drugs. Their notes come through six weeks later, with a faded printout accompanied by handwritten sheets and numerous hospital letters.Clinicians in the new practice have to do ...
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A personalised input into role redesign
Community support nurses have been adding their input to a role redesign exercise at South Birmingham primary care trust.
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Teaching PCTs conference presentations
The presentations from this year's teaching primary care trust national conference are now available online.
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A guide to world class commissioning
The Department of Health's 'world class' masterplan aims to create a commissioning system other nations will envy. Daloni Carlisle examines the progress of an initiative that has re-energised PCTs and created huge expectations
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Race equality monitoring and diabetes
The Healthcare Commission has found few trusts obey data law on ethnicity. Caroline White looks at the implications for diabetes
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Paul Jennings on personalised services
Developing personalised services for people with learning disabilities has helped to improve access
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Proposal to cut benefits to pay for care
Support for Sir Derek Wanless's proposals for a new social care funding system is growing and attention is now shifting to cutting a £3.7bn benefits bill to help pay for it.
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Practice-based commissioning: PCTs blamed for sticking to old practices
Practice-based commissioning is being undermined by primary care trusts allocating funds to practices on a historical, rather than needs, basis, the Audit Commission has concluded.
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Patients could commission own healthcare, says Nicholson
Patients could soon be handed responsibility for commissioning their own care through individual budgets, the NHS chief executive has revealed.
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Millions have undiagnosed lung disease
Almost 3 million people in the UK have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - more than three times those diagnosed, the British Lung Foundation has estimated.
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Practice-Based Commissioning briefing
Practice-based commissioning was introduced as a policy by the Labour government in 2004. It aims to allow GPs to commission directly on behalf of their patients and to give them more control over their budget.
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Helen Bevan on world class commissioning
To make world class commissioning a reality, we must challenge our existing mindsets
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New generation of equality in perinatal care
Infant death and women's health are marked by inequality but outreach workers are now changing prospects, reports Caroline White
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Comment
Local blueprint for primary care revolution kickstarts GP reform
Heart of Birmingham primary care trust has placed itself in the vanguard of the drive to modernise primary care.
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Franchise plan for primary care draws fire from GPs
A primary care trust is planning an innovative strategy to franchise out 'branded' primary care centres.
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PCTs to be primed for greater NICE input
Primary care trusts will have a bigger say over the way new drugs are used under plans being drawn up this winter.
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Joint working: health and local government
All eyes are on Chris Bull as he becomes the first person in the country to head up both a council and PCT. Jennifer Taylor reports on a revolution in joined-up working in Herefordshire
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Getting to grips with health inequalities
Improving healthcare for people from black and minority ethnic communities is the aim of a new Health Foundation Shared Leadership for Change project.
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social care eligibility
One in 10 councils are planning to tighten their eligibility criteria for access to care services next year. 15 out of 150 councils told the Commission for Social Care Inspection that they will limit the number of disabled and elderly people receiving care services, Mencap has learned. It also discovered ...