18 Apr 2011
| by Susie Sell
Attempts to detach health visitors and district nurses from practices will put patients at risk, GP...Dr Tom Black, Northern Ireland GPC deputy chairman, said health visitors and practice nurses were ...
, a member of Western LMC, warned removing health visitors from practices would put patients at risk ...
said. 'The system is not broke and we should leave it alone. We want to maintain health visitors ...
GP leaders have urged Northern Ireland's new health minister to make radical changes to its...need radical changes in the health service,' he said. 'Difficult decisions need to be made.'
Dr Dunn ...
for commissioning for the last two to three years,' he said.
Dr Dunn said health minister Edwin Poots, appointed ...
level, maximising the involvement not only of local health professionals, but of local communities ...
Dr Rowan Brannigan, a member of Southern LMC, said practices lost between 5,000 and 50,000 as a result of cuts to GMS funding. He warned that many practices have had to stop carrying out minor surgery, travel vaccinations and contraception services.
Practices have also been forced to change surgery ...
-wide contract would lead to further fragmentation of health services across the four nations, GP leaders said ...
' between health policy in England and the three other countries.
'There are differences between Scotland ...
-wide contract there is more potential for yet more fragmentation of health services,' he warned. 'What we need ...
to give hands-on care? West Midlands mental health GPSI Dr Ian Walton said: GPs are blamed ...
as big a health priority as cancer, diabetes, and heart and lung diseases.
Professor Peter Piot ...
neglected global health challenges of our generation, with 36m people living with the condition today. What ...
, talks are taking place with HMRC for the funding to be al located dir ectly to the Health and Social ...