10 Mar 2011
| by Dr Marion Sloan
in the city.
It is well known that as many as one in five GP consultations are about digestive disorders ...
in the community.
The community gastroenterology service will give GPs from other CSGPC practices phone ...
GP commissioners must improve access to specialist osteoporosis clinics to tackle the growing...in osteoporosis care, according to West Sussex GPSI Dr Alun Cooper. This leaves many patients liable to suffer ...
written local commissioning strategy for bone health.
The Breaking Point report says reducing the osteoporosis-related care bill could save a substantial part of the NHS's 20 billion efficiency target.
A ...
11 Nov 2010
| by Ian Hempseed
Last week, I detailed the pros and cons of the different types of company that practices federating to provide healthcare services can choose between.
Here are the main features of five other options for the structure of a provider federation, together with their advantages and disadvantages ...
GP consortia should ask member practices to review each other's decisions and use of resources...Iain Stewart, commissioning management lead for the Wirral NHS Alliance pathfinder consortium in Merseyside, said that senior GPs in his area were visiting other practices to discuss their clinical ...
review, and 'other consortia will have to do the same thing', Mr Stewart said, in order to stay within ...
16 Jun 2011
| by Ross Clark
Ross Clark advises on legal and other matters that shadow GP consortia need to consider now....:
It is the company and not its individual members that contracts with, and is therefore liable to, other parties ...
confidentiality clause, to ensure that each member keeps confidential any information it learns about other ...
11 Nov 2010
| by Dr Rhiannon England, Brian Rock and Russel Ayling
of PCPCS involvement depending on patient demographics, list sizes, in-house expertise and other available services and support networks. Some draw more heavily on PCPCS consultative approaches. Others refer ...
signpost patients to other services. PCPCS clinicians provide therapeutic case management where ...
, learning disabilities and osteoporosis will be extended for a further year. The ethnicity DES has been ...
'.
Professor Ham said some consortia will be 'better than the best of PCTs, but others will most certainly fail ...
having a regime to deal with persistent failure, where successful commissioning consortia or others take ...
11 Nov 2010
| by Helen Northall
professionals and others are going to play active roles in commissioning, there will be implications both ...
will the impact be on skill mix, recruitment issues and working with other professionals inside and outside ...
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Information management.
Decommissioning services - the reality of achieving more with less.
Making other ...
23 Jun 2011
| by Paul Corrigan
to take charge of NHS commissioning.
Others will be part of a shadow commissioning group, which, from ...
local commissioning.
Other clinicians complained that they were being excluded from commissioning ...
of doctors over the others.
So the reformed reforms will change the law to enforce nurses, consultants ...
to remove filters
