All Primary care articles – Page 304
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BMA takes action in 'turf war' over community work
The British Medical Association is drawing up guidance for consultants 'stuck in the middle' of turf wars between acute and primary care trusts trying to protect their incomes.
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Warner: 'no excuses' for delaying commissioning
New guidance telling primary care trusts how to provide GP practices with information and indicative budgets leaves 'no excuses' for delaying the introduction of practice-based commissioning, health minister Lord Warner has said.
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Foundations could provide multi-community services
Community foundation trusts could combine the provider arms of more than one primary care trust to avoid them being unviable as stand-alone organisations.
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Higher income for family doctors under new GP contract
Family doctors earned on average £106,000 during 2004-05, the first year of delivering the new GP contract, according to figures published by the Information Centre for health and social care.An analysis of tax data for GPs in the UK found that earnings rose by 30 per cent last year compared ...
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GP commissioning boost revealed
The Department of Health has issued guidance designed to boost the number of GP practices involved in practice-based commissioning.The guidance says that good progress has been made in getting the 'right environment' in place for PBC, but it aims to clarify some 'challenging' issues around governance, accountability and budget setting.To ...
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Paula Grey on building on Smokefree Liverpool
The many very good health programmes and initiatives in the city over two decades have had little impact in reducing health inequalities
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Paul Jennings on success in Walsall
Progress on teenage pregnancy has been substantial, with the fastest reduction in the West Midlands
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Legal briefing: organising key commissioning relationships
Commissioning has been part and parcel of the NHS for a number of years. What has changed recently is the view that a reinvigorated and more sophisticated commissioning process, with the implementation of practice-based commissioning, will improve services and ensure value for money.
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Janet Askham on the need to improve patient feedback
'If we continue to ask patients to give up their time to provide valuable feedback on their doctor's performance, surely we owe it to them at least to ask the right questions?'
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Reducing health inequalities for South Asian population
Knowledge that the risk of dying prematurely from coronary heart disease is 50 per cent higher in the South Asian community - immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - than in the indigenous population has been available for more than half a century.
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Testing a new approach to patient-centred care
Millions of people in the UK are living with long-term conditions such as asthma or diabetes. However, the extent to which they are able to lead full and active lives depends, in part, on how able they are to manage their own healthcare, for example by their medication doses or ...
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Healthy food vouchers launched
Public health minister Caroline Flint has launched a new scheme to ensure low-income mothers and pregnant women can provide their families with milk, fresh fruit and vegetables.Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme. It will give qualifying people weekly vouchers that they can exchange at 20,000 participating retailers.Click ...
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Department of Health launches GP satisfaction survey
A survey asking 5 million patients to rate their satisfaction with their GP is launched today.The GP patient experience survey, Your Doctor, Your Experience, Your Say, is part of the improved access scheme directed enhanced service. The results will be used to reward GPs ...
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Widespread uptake of PBC incentives
Eight-one per cent of practices had taken advantage of incentive payments to implement practice-based commissioning by the end of September, according to new figures from the Department of Health. This is up from 74 per cent in August.Eighty-two per cent of PCTs have put in place arrangements to support PBC, ...
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CHAMPS publish healthier hospitals guide
Cheshire and Merseyside Partnerships public health team has published a guide to healthier hospitals, collating the evidence on health promotion for secondary care settings.More information on CHAMPS and copies of the guide can be accessed via www.champs-for-health.net
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How Middle England turned into a nation of reconfiguration rebels
Demonstrations against changes to hospital services have brought thousands on to the streets. Tash Shifrin spoke to some of the campaigners about their aims
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Author of reconfiguration blueprint rails against 'wrong, confusing and puzzling' opposition
The man who wrote the blueprint for Scottish health services has hit out at politicians and unions who originally backed his plans but are now opposing them as they are rolled out locally.
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Doctors to provide treatment at threatened site
Teams of GPs have used their commissioning skills to help keep open a community hospital that was threatened with closure.
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Joint health and social care regulation body delayed as plans are left out of Queen's Speech
The merger of the health and social care inspectorates looks set to be delayed by at least six months following the absence of a bill to implement it in the Queen's Speech.