Management
And what about the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)?
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary reward and incentive programme – intended to reward GP practices for the quality of care provided to keep reading
Month: February 2018
News
NHS Digital slammed for data share
NHS Digital must immediately stop sharing patients’ addresses with immigration officials, it’s been told in a scathing letter by the Commons health select committee. The keep reading
News
GP practices ‘at risk’ of closure, warns BMA Cymru Wales
The futures of 74 GP practices in Wales are at risk of either closing or being handed back to their health boards, according to BMA keep reading
News
Longer GP appointments needed as part of efforts to detect cancer early
CREDIT: This story was first seen in the Express and Star The Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland said 10 minute consultations are “unfit keep reading
News
Blackpool’s £250k a month bill for missed NHS appointments
CREDIT: This story was first seen in The Gazette Missed appointments with GPs, practice nurses and other healthcare workers cost the Fylde coast NHS around £250,000 keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Fitness ‘prescriptions’: how we’re fighting chronic illness
GP James Higgins explains how a CCG-wide project to offer fitness ‘prescriptions’ is transforming care at his practice – and why it should be a keep reading
News
Wales: BMA welcomes plans to protect staff from abuse
The BMA welcomes proposals being considered by the Welsh government to combat abuse of staff Proposals being considered by the Welsh government to protect NHS keep reading
Management
Splitting GP services up for different patient groups could negatively affect quality of care
CREDIT: This story was first seen in the National Health Executive Initiatives offering faster access to GPs may undermine doctors’ ability to keep people out keep reading
Live it
Embracing flexible working practices; the why and the how
Does your practice embrace flexible working? Yuliana Topazly, founder of BuddyWith.org.uk, makes a strong case for considering it as a way of recruiting and retaining keep reading
Management
Doctors quit BMA in protest at ‘serious breach of trust’ over new Scottish GP contract
CREDIT: This story was first seen in The Herald Family doctors in some of Scotland’s most deprived and rural practices are quitting the BMA in protest keep reading