All Primary care articles – Page 288
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Hewitt insists choose and book is on track
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has attacked the 'myth' that the choose and book programme to boost patient choice in the NHS is not working properly.Taking questions from the audience at health seminar hosted by the Social Market Foundation, she was challenged over claims that not all patients were being given ...
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New website to give NHS patients more power
The Department of Health has announced the launch of a new website that will bring together information on all hospitals and treatment centres.The Choice website will allow members of the public and clinicians to access a range of information through one super site that will act as a one-stop gateway ...
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DoH signs prisoner healthcare agreement
The Department of Health has signed a national partnership agreement with the Home Office covering the healthcare needs of prisoners.This updates the original agreement signed three years ago and covers all public sector prisons in England.Read the agreement here
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Select committee to hear evidence on workforce planning
The Commons health select committee will be holding its final session on workforce planning on 25 January.The committee will be hearing from new minister Lord Hunt and Department of Health deputy director of workforce Nic Greenfield.Click here for more information
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Lib Dems condemn 'depressingly familiar' Tory policies
Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Norman Lamb has called the findings of the Conservative policy commission on the NHS 'depressingly familiar' and claimed that giving GPs total control of their budgets would lead to greater health inequalities.He said: 'There can be no doubt that GPs are the backbone of the primary ...
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Drinking levels lower in London than rest of country
Londoners are less likely to drink alcohol than the rest of the country according to a new report, London, the Highs and Lows 2, launched by mayor Ken Livingstone.Young Londoners are also less likely to use drugs than young people in other parts of ...
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Local government white paper plan launched
The Department for Communities and Local Government has published the implementation plan for the local government white paper.The plan covers five workstreams including one on public involvement in health, which includes details on the expansion of overview and scrutiny committees.Read the plan here
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Gail Richards on achieving 18-week targets
Efforts to meet the 18-week target are intensifying, as the growing number of articles, tools and workshops show. Are we focusing our energies in the right place?
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LINks bill gets second reading
The government bill to abolish patients' forums and replace them with local involvement networks (LINks) gets its second reading in parliament today. The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill also seeks to introduce 'community petitions' that can trigger service reviews.Download the bill
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BMA slams private treatment centres
Plans for privately run clinical assessment, treat and support (CATS) centres in England could jeopardise NHS finances, threaten medical posts, and create potential conflicts of interest, the British Medical Association says today. The warning comes in response to consultation on plans for up to 10 CATS centres in Cumbria and ...
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Legal briefing: the separation of provider and commissioner
There is increasing pressure on primary care trusts to ensure clarity and robust processes around the distinction between provision and commissioning of services, warns David Owen
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Launch of the Primary Care Genetics Society
The Primary Care Genetics Society has been established to support primary care professionals as they find themselves dealing with an ever-demanding public continually being fed information from sources such as the internet and the lay media.
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Conservatives launch health policy
GPs should be given control of health service budgets, Conservative leader David Cameron and shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley will say today as they set out their vision for an NHS with fewer targets and a stronger focus on health outcomes.Details of the policy will appear on the Conservative Party ...
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Innovation: pulling the dragon's teeth
A Dragons' Denstyle business incubator helping those suffering from mental ill-health is being starved of funds as it falls between departmental responsibilities. Naomi Chambers and Leigh Wharton describe its benefits
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What social enterprise can do for healthcare
A social enterprise is often defined as a business that trades with a social or environmental purpose. It is not driven by profit, and reinvests surpluses back into the organisation or community.
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Ethnic health inequalities examined
Poverty is the main factor driving the worse health experienced by black and minority ethnic groups, says the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology today. A review of the evidence looks at the causes and patterns of health inequalities and offers policy options.Download the review from 4.30pm today
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Information stations
Tom Morgan and Nick Coyle on how valuable data from QOF results can help compare GP performance and improve patient care
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Patient and public involvement toolkit
Lambeth primary care trust has produced a thoroughly researched and clearly presented document on patient and public involvement.
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NHS Partners Network respond to commission report
I read with concern your article of January 18 reporting on the leaked Healthcare Commission draft report into data on clinical quality of independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs).
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Hewitt: government should have capped GP profits
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has said the government would have considered capping GPs' earning potential under their contract if it had predicted the extent of their increased profits.Information Centre for health and social care figures show that the percentage of GPs' revenue taken as profit after expenses rose from 40 ...