All Primary care articles – Page 95
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CommentEnglish waiting list tops 3 million, its biggest in six years
The English waiting list is 20 per cent bigger than at the last general election but despite that, long waits have improved under the Coalition. We are now well into the zone where the ‘90 per cent adjusted admitted’ target is at risk
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NewsAction urged on health of homeless
Action is being urged to help give homeless people the treatment they need for a range of physical and mental health problems.
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HSJ KnowledgeFrom board to ward: How patients' stories can spur on change
Patient involvement motivates staff
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HSJ KnowledgeOnly a whole culture change can make self-care a reality
There is no magic wand to care redesign
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CommentHow to look after older people in an ideal world
An alternative care pathway could have very different outcomes
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CommentIntegration Summit: Closed doors and outward attitudes tell a story
Hear from the facilitator
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CommentIntegration Summit: Are you the glue that binds joint working or the treacle that gets in the way?
There are clear obstacles to joint working
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SupplementsPatient data webinar: Eyes on the dashboard
Finding solutions to fragmented data systems
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CommentReaders' letters – 2 July 2014
‘Heat maps’ of wards could help identify which are struggling to cope
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NewsNHS England to offer local commissioning 'step-change'
Simon Stevens is set to invite clinical commissioning groups and local authorities to experiment with a further “step change” in joint commissioning arrangements.
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News'Crisis' warning over GP trainees
General practice services could face a crisis if more medical students cannot be persuaded to become GPs, a healthcare academic has warned.
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SupplementsFlexible Futures: Embrace locum staff
Flexibility and motivation benefit both the employee and employer
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NewsHunt: CCGs must become 'accountable care organisations'
Clinical commissioning groups must become more accountable as they expand their role in delivering healthcare, the health secretary has said
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NewsSimon Stevens: ‘open’ areas for new GPs could cut inequalities
Bringing down barriers faced by new GP providers wanting to enter the market in underdoctored areas could help cut health inequalities, the chief executive of NHS England has said.
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SupplementsClinical care protocols: When safe comes as standard
Why evidence based clinical care protocols hold the key to standardising care
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NewsAround 180 CCGs bid for primary care co-commissioning
Bids to co-commission primary care have been submitted by around 180 of England’s 211 clinical commissioning groups, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPractices increasingly relying on primary care staff to fill GP shortfalls
GP surgeries in areas with some of the highest patient to doctor ratios are increasingly relying on nurses to plug gaps left by the shortage of medics
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CommentTeach clinicians how to talk about cancer
Patients want a dialogue that goes beyond their consultation