All Primary care articles – Page 313
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Website promises easier comparisons to promote public understanding
The Healthcare Commission today launched a new web service designed to allow the public to make easy national and local comparisons about the state of NHS services.
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Flint urges shops to weigh in on public health effort
Businesses, shops and employers must be drawn into efforts to improve public health, the government said this week.
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Only two top scorers in first year of healthcheck ratings
Just two organisations, both of them foundation trusts, have scored top marks in the first healthcheck ratings by the Healthcare Commission.
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GMC: patients should rate GPs
GPs should be rated by the public in the same way as users of auction website eBay, according to the president of the General Medical Council.
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'It's not about Americans in 10-gallon hats'
While North Eastern Derbyshire primary care trust's decision to award an APMS contract to UnitedHealth Europe ended in the High Court, at neighbouring Central and Greater Derby PCTs managers are confident that UHE will meet local people's needs. Lynne Greenwood reports
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PCTs may face £1bn QOF bill
Primary care trusts will be required to pay out up to £1bn if all GP surgeries attain maximum points under the quality and outcomes framework this year.
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McKinsey accused of unfair advantage on commissioning
Companies bidding to win a place on the government's list of approved commissioning support suppliers are questioning whether rival bidder McKinsey has been given an unfair advantage.
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PCT chief questions value of competency assessments
A primary care trust chief executive has given a 'warts and all' account of the fitness for purpose programme now about to launch into its third wave, demanding to know whether it is value for money.
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NICE chief calls for QOF recognition
The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has criticised the government for not taking account of its guidance when drawing up the quality and outcomes framework.
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David Woodhead on gardening for the mind
'She was clear that picking up a spade and plunging it into the ground enabled her to channel some of the anger she had felt the previous week at work.'
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Lansley: PBC is not enough
GPs would be handed direct responsibility to manage demand under a Conservative government because the party does not believe primary care trusts are up to the task.
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Tory pledge for more nurses
Every school would have a school nurse under the Conservatives, Andrew Lansley told the party conference.
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Right to rehab reconsidered
The government is considering introducing a 'right to rehabilitation leave', health minister Andy Burnham has announced.
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Lewis wants national advocacy service
Patients need a national advocacy service to extend the benefits of choice to poor or excluded people, a minister has claimed.
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Flint says 'one size fits all strategy' will never win public health war
National public health campaigns could contribute to a further widening of health inequalities, a public health minister has warned.
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Consultation on funding boundaries sparks fears over cost impact for PCTs
Government proposals for the funding of long-term care for people outside hospital will exacerbate the financial crisis facing primary care trusts, according to the NHS Confederation.
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Burnham: come to table with councils
The future regulation of healthcare needs a closer relationship between the NHS and local government and a system that is 'less institutionally driven', health minister Andy Burnham told a fringe meeting on Monday.
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Charles Core on Hepatitis C
1 October brings World Hepatitis Awareness Day, but on the domestic stage the NHS is struggling to cope, writes Charles Gore
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Milburn calls for PCT elections and patient entitlements in law
Former health secretary Alan Milburn broke a three-year conference silence on health by calling for the election of primary care trust boards and the setting down in law of patient entitlements to healthcare.
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Richards claims improved cancer drug uptake
National uptake of cancer drugs approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has increased, with fewer regional variations in prescribing, according to a review.