All Primary care articles – Page 86
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HSJ LocalPharmacies step in to help ease pressure on GP surgeries
PRIMARY CARE: Pharmacies in the North East have started to provide free pain killers so that patients with minor ailments do not have to make appointments with their GPs.
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NewsExclusive: Providers win £500m in new tariff deal
Providers will be given just a fortnight to decide whether to sign up to a new set of ‘voluntary’ prices for the coming year, with concessions made expected to cost commissioners up to £500m.
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NewsCCGs taking on full primary care co-commissioning powers revealed
NHS England has revealed the 64 clinical commissioning groups that will take full control of their local primary care budgets from April.
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NewsMonitor to road test payment systems for new care models
Monitor is to begin ‘co-designing’ and testing models for capitation based payment systems to help in the commissioning of new models for integrated care.
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CommentCollective leadership will keep forward view ambitions on track
Changes to commissioning are needed
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HSJ LocalGP 'super-practice' care model will 'break commissioning barriers'
STRUCTURE: A GP ‘super-practice’ is seeking to trial new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View to ‘break down commissioning barriers’ and ‘innovate at a faster pace’.
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HSJ LocalSheffield organisations pitch £260m 'vanguard' care plan
STRUCTURE: Health and care organisations have agreed to pool £260m to redesign and commission services together in their application to become a “vanguard site” for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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NewsQOF 'bad for health', says NHS England GP leader
NHS England’s most senior GP leaders have criticised the national GP pay for performance framework as ‘bad for health’. Clinicians should instead be incentivised to work more closely with other parts of the health system, they said.
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HSJ LocalSocial enterprises win Cornwall out of hours contract
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise consortium will replace Serco as the provider of out of hours GP services across Cornwall.
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NewsNational fund needed to address paramedic shortage, says ambulance chief
An ambulance trust chief executive has warned that the lack of a national funding scheme for training paramedics could only exacerbate workforce shortages if it is not tackled.
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HSJ KnowledgeTrust chiefs speak: How to tackle winter pressures and election turbulence
2015 is set to be a turbulent year for the hospital sector, especially as the NHS looks likely to be the battleground for the election. Richard Vize speaks to trust chief executives about their plan of attack
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NewsCore GP services could be part of pooled budgets
The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on an amendment that would allow budgets for core GP services to be pooled with clinical commissioning group and local authorities’ funds.
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NewsStevens: New care vanguard must bring in GP lists
The involvement of GPs is the most important and most challenging factor facing any area wanting to trial one of the new models of care detailed in the NHS Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens has said.
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HSJ LocalGPs to be trained to detect domestic abuse
WORKFORCE: GPs in Newham, east London, are to be trained in recognising domestic abuse and be expected to routinely question patients with sexually transmitted infections or unplanned pregnancies about whether they have experienced domestic violence.
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NewsSenior figures from three main parties back greater role for HWBs
Senior figures from the three main political parties have backed health and wellbeing boards as the main commissioners of integrated health and social care.
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HSJ LocalJudicial review launched over integrated care contract award
COMMERCIAL: A south London clinical commissioning group’s attempt to contract a new integrated GP out of hours and urgent care service has been left in limbo after a losing bidder initiated judicial review proceedings against the decision.
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HSJ KnowledgeDon't let primary care patients slip through the nets
Why primary care needs to prioritise patient safety
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NewsStevens: Room for more flexibility in the future of FT model
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has suggested that there could be more flexibility in what constitutes a foundation trust in future.