in the poorest areas in England in a bid to slash central costs, GP can reveal....financial cut' to slash central government costs.
His team's work, which tried to 'demystify the problem ...
18 Jan 2012
| by Susie Sell
transform the NHS into a US-style system, GP leaders fear....that incentivise integration would move the NHS towards a US system with large commercial companies taking control ...
NICE has quietly scrapped its system for proposing new QOF indicators, in a change GPs fear could
The government's NHS reforms may fail to liberate the NHS as central organisations bid to maintain ...
simulated a year of NHS activity.
Commissioning for the future showed that central NHS organisations ...
of the financial challenge central bodies in the new NHS will want to place 'a tight grip on those that hold ...
The comments came after the North Central London PCT cluster published a report last week setting ...
in planning NHS reform.
The report, Transforming the primary care landscape in north central London ...
to a cluster-wide IT system and adopt electronic patient access devices.
Display and distribute all ...
03 Mar 2011
| by Tom Ireland
2010. 'I understand why people are nervous about price competition,' he said. 'But over time ...
14 Mar 2011
| by Abi Rimmer
Reform backs DoH plans to reorganise the NHS. But it says the proposals neither provide accountability to patients nor dismantle central regulation.
Reorganising the commissioning structure would leave responsibility divided between consortia, local authorities and the NHS Commissioning Board ...
27 Jan 2011
| by Dr John Havard
) in central London as our centre of excellence. We agreed with the hospital to set up a model involving ...
it is still early days, my practice, Saxmundham Health, had used this system for seven months by November 2010 ...
11 Mar 2011
| by Abi Rimmer
to encourage more men to attend. 'One of the things we would like to see is GPs making appointment systems ...
if surgeries used online appointment systems,' Mr Baker said. 'Some surgeries are running these systems but we ...
telephone booking systems, he said. ...
showed, but poor integration of IT systems and coding errors meant many went unreported. Data collection ...
to local GPs IT systems, he added. With another level of complexity comes the room for error. Non-integrated IT systems increase the risk of duplication, he said.
Dr Karet called for a stipulation within ...