The number of CHC placements to the NHS continues to rise with 62,000 people eligible for Continuing Health Care funding in 2015/16. The reasons for this increase are well known; primarily an ageing population with [read more]
Sarah Longland, practice manager at Swadlincote Surgery in Derby, has recently created a social media group for practice managers, ‘to provide a wide-reaching support network where members can speak freely about their role and develop [read more]
Credit: This story was first seen on Gloucestershire Live Investigations are underway into the conduct of an individual GP in Gloucestershire amid allegations of bullying, harassment and poor clinical practice, Gloucestershire Live reports. NHS England [read more]
Credit: This story was first seen on The Guardian Modernising and securing the future of the health service in England would cost at least £9.5bn in upfront spending, money that the NHS does not have, the British [read more]
Credit: This story was first seen on the Bournemouth Daily Echo Two Poole GP surgeries which serve more than 20,000 patients between them are to merge due to ‘increasing pressure’ on the NHS, the Bournemouth [read more]
Credit: This story was first seen on the Mid Sussex Times GP practices across the West Sussex coast have agreed to work together in new groups to combat NHS pressures, the Mid Sussex Times reports. [read more]
In a complex network of practices, managing staff rotas efficiently and to budget, can prove to be a gruelling task. With the healthcare industry facing legislation and contract changes, it’s more important than ever that [read more]
Q. What were the initial challenges you had in introducing GP federations/seven-day services across Manchester? A. Predating seven-day service we had to consider the context of overstretched, under-resourced general practice in a climate of uncertainty [read more]
Getting staffing issues wrong in organisational changes can be expensive and – just as importantly – adversely affect staff relations at the very time you need the team to pull together to deliver all the [read more]
Harry Longman, chief executive of GP Access, critiques the ‘GP at scale’ model of care favoured by NHS England and sets out a path to patient satisfaction based on a demand-led system ‘GP at scale’ [read more]
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