30 Mar 2011
The existing NHS complaints system unfairly blames GPs for errors across the health service...about the best approach are not being taken by health boards as the only accepted way to practise,' he ...
Bailey said the conference of Welsh LMCs on 26 March would discuss how England's Health Bill will affect practices near the border.
A Welsh government spokesman said health minister Edwina Hart had raised the issue with England's health secretary Andrew Lansley.
'Discussions are taking place with GPs ...
-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 ...
03 Jun 2011
Wales will be worst hit by NHS cuts across the UK, the report by chief economist Professor John Appleby found.
GPC Wales chairman Dr David Bailey said spending cuts would inevitably hit GPs. 'GPs are the gatekeepers of the NHS. Unfortunately when there is more stress on health care, GPs act like a sponge ...
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 ...
12 Mar 2012
| by Marina Soteriou
GPs at the Welsh LMCs conference last week called for more funding for out-of-hours care and warned local health boards (LHBs) were asking GPs to 'refuse to triage patients' or asking non-clinical staff to triage calls.
GPC Wales chairman Dr David Bailey said the profession was not prepared ...
08 Feb 2012
| by Professor Rodger Charlton
is not necessarily by the health boards, the Welsh equivalent of PCTs, but the Welsh government itself ...