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Service for a fee: charging for overseas patients
The Department of Health intends to charge overseas visitors and migrants for GP services by the middle of this Parliament (2017/18). What potential impact will keep reading
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GP closure threatens care for thousands
CREDIT: This story was first seen in BMA News Thousands of patients could be left without GPs following the closure of a surgery in Kent, keep reading
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Six secrets to active signposting success
Making healthcare accessible is crucial. As part of the GP Forward View, the Department of Health has created a new, five-year £45m fund to contribute keep reading
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Smartphone GP service ‘risks luring doctors from frontline practice’
CREDIT: This story was first seen in The Guardian General practitioner leaders say they are ‘really worried’ about list of those ineligible for virtual consultation keep reading
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The ‘digital patient’: be a part of our research into the digital patient
Technology is pervasive; we have all become digital citizens. But what of the ‘digital patient’? We at Practice Business want to better understand how the keep reading
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Don’t leave me this way: looking at the doctor exodus and underlying reasons
The morale of doctors is low and many are considering leaving the profession due to work pressures and stresses. A recent Doctors.net.uk survey revealed that keep reading
Health & Patient Care
NHS offers smartphone GP appointments
CREDIT: This story was first seen in BBC News A 24-hour service has been launched for NHS patients, offering GP consultations via videolink on smartphones, keep reading
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Demand to rectify GP back-office support
CREDIT: This story was first seen in BMA News GPs have urged NHS England to address its poor progress in fixing flaws in the back-office keep reading
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Firm targets NHS GPs to sign up to scheme offering private appointments
CREDIT: This story was first seen in the Mail Online A firm is targeting NHS family doctors to sign up to a scheme offering private appointments around their keep reading
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Are you being heard? How to use your voice so that people listen
There’s nothing more frustrating than leaving a meeting feeling that you may as well not have been there, that your ideas were brushed over, your keep reading