11 May 2012
| by Tom Moberly
GPs have called for an overhaul of drug regulation , warning the current system puts patients ...
under the system, the NHS will be able to negotiate prices around 30% lower during this early ...
having to put themselves up for sale. It also gets patients - who should be central to these discussions ...
16 May 2012
| by Dr Pallavi Bradshaw
, but the experience of the Medical Protection Society (MPS) is that many practices do not have an effective system ...
issues such as misdiagnosis, poor outcome, near miss systems failure, human error and unexpectedly good ...
in systems or patients' care to be identified and changes implemented to improve quality, prevent repetition ...
02 May 2012
| by Phil Wigglesworth
in a central 'warehouse' which analyses and cross-references millions of records, producing solution ...
. This system allows comparisons between practices on different indicators for patients. For example ...
to go to hospital. If a practice changes how it records things, the system can quickly see improvements ...
01 May 2012
.
Achieved by:
Having a system to deal with comments and complaints and providing information for service users about the system.
Supporting service users or others acting on their behalf to make ...
16 May 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
performed.
Predictably, GPs were asked to take more care - but that's not enough. The whole system needs ...
have to work with the NHS's archaic communication systems.
Routinely copying medication from ...
concept than the summary care record which disseminates what the GP has on their practice system, however ...
09 May 2012
central control, would have perhaps been wiser not to assume that bigger is always more beautiful ...
01 May 2012
Outcome
People give consent to their care and treatment. They understand and know how to change decisions that have been agreed previously.
Achieved by:
Providers having systems in place that they act on to gain and review consent from people who use services.
Compliance hints ...
automatically when checks are due.
But even that isn t the whole answer because no computer system ...
much.
A single point of failure Indeed, GPs are rapidly becoming what system designers call a ...
02 May 2012
| by Susana Tettey and Dr Anshoo Sahota
be altered. Further management includes topical agents, phototherapy and systemic treatments, all of which ...
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Systemic treatment In patients who do not respond to or are intolerant of phototherapy, the next option is systemic treatment.
The main choices of systemic agents include methotrexate , ciclosporin ...
in the first place. It was about central political processes, not local needs.'
GPC negotiator Dr Peter ...