Management
Calling time on GP appointment-booking blunders
Is your ear hot from having the phone pressed up to it? Managing GP appointments can be a time-consuming task; with increasing demand on services keep reading
GP appointments
Management
All but ‘urgent’ patients turned away as pressure overwhelms GPs
CREDIT: This story was first seen in The Telegraph GPs are being forced to deny patients routine appointments and only accept “urgent” cases due to keep reading
Management
PMA launches new course to relieve GP clerical workload
Practice Managers Association (PMA) launches new medical administrator/GP assistant diploma to relieve clerical workload for GPs; the new medical administrator role could reduce 15 million keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Mental health ‘game-changer’ leads to reduction in demand for GP appointments
Improved mental health care for patients with physical ailments has reduced demand for GP appointments and cut hospital admissions by three quarters in a pilot keep reading
Management
CQC raises concerns over quality of online primary care services
CREDIT: This story was first seen on computerweekly.com Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) inspection into online or app-based GP services finds that 43% of providers aren’t keep reading