All Primary care articles – Page 6
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News
Patients less pleased with GP phone access in all but one ICS
Patients in all but one integrated care system found it more difficult to contact their GP practice by phone this year compared to last year.
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Comment
The point of economic growth is to meet increasing healthcare demand
As the demand for healthcare continues to grow amidst an ageing population, new research from the Health Foundation and the University of Liverpool sheds light on the scale of the challenges ahead. While living longer is a cause for celebration, it will require significant adjustments to meet the rising demand ...
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News
Ministers reject Hunt’s plans for general practice
Government has rejected several policy proposals to promote “continuity of care” in general practice which were put forward by Jeremy Hunt.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The race to the neighbourhood NHS
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Will this winter be better or worse?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
NHSE appoints two new directors
NHS England has appointed an interim chief dental officer, while a big pharma executive has been hired as its new commercial medicines director, it has announced.
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Patients face medicine shortages as private market buys up drugs
A critical year-long shortage of vital type 2 diabetes medicines is being driven partly by its demand as a weight loss aid, with figures suggesting more than half the prescribing for one drug is through the private market, HSJ has learned.
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ICB failure creating ‘absolute nightmare’ for vulnerable patients needing covid treatment
Many vulnerable patients are struggling to access covid treatments after commissioning responsibility switched to integrated care boards this week, charities have warned.
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Comment
Stop debating whether ICSs are the answer - get on and make them work
As national advisers on the development of integrated care systems, Donna Hall and Sir David Pearson provide insight and support to emerging national guidance and policy, to local systems on different aspects of their journey towards integration and are involved in initiatives which build bridges between local government, social care ...
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News
Vaccination programme proposed for illness with ‘considerable NHS impact’
The government has been advised to introduce a vaccination programme for respiratory syncytial virus for infants and older adults.
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‘Fewer managers’ calls are ‘nonsense’, says NHS England review author
The health service has failed to invest enough in primary care and prevention, according to a new report for NHS England, whose author said the service had been ‘fixated’ on acute care for the past two decades.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Doing a Dudley
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
GPs should lose ‘sole patient data controller’ role, says NHSE chief
The government should ‘relieve’ GP practices of being the sole controller for their patients’ data, a senior NHS England director has said.
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News
Two-thirds of GPs refuse to register homeless patients
Two-thirds of GP practices from a sample of 100 in London declined to register a patient without an address, contrary to national rules which are meant to ensure homeless and excluded people can get healthcare, HSJ has found.
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NHSE begins £1bn move to ‘diversify’ GP IT
NHS England is proposing a new framework for buying primary care IT — worth up to £1bn — which it hopes will lead to ‘diversification’ of suppliers.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: 21 days stuck in A&E
This week’s Health Check discusses data revealing the true scale of long A&E waits for mental health patients and what acute trusts are trying to do about it without extra national funding.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Opening up primary care medicine
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
Ministers failing to reform ‘restrictive’ primary care rules
The government has failed to change ‘restrictive’ legislation which would enable primary care reform – despite repeated announcements – a pharmacy leader has said.
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News
‘Archaic’ and risky patient records still used by most GP practices
Most GP practices in England are still using ‘archaic’ Lloyd George paper records despite a commitment to digitise them, HSJ has found.
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Comment
How to enable success with place-based partnerships
Joshua Edwards elaborates on the barriers as well as enablers that will help understand trust leaders’ initial experiences of working with others at place to set ambitions and deliver better outcomes