Conservative conference: call for pooled primary and secondary care budgets
NHS budgets should be pooled across primary, secondary and specialist services, but Labour plans to put councils in charge of commissioning are a long way off, a senior Tory has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - October 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Change GP contract for long-term care planning, says report
Primary care services which fail to support a new model of care planning for patients with long-term conditions should be 'decommissioned' and GP contracts realigned, a report co-written by the DH director of strategy warns. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - October 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CCGs need more money, commissioners warn
CCGs will become unsustainable if they are not given more money to deliver new targets, commissioners have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - October 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Labour conference: GP-led commissioning 'not in public interest', says Burnham
GPs should not be in control of NHS commissioning, Labour's shadow health secretary has said. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Outgoing RCGP chairwoman tells Labour general practice must change
Outgoing RCGP chairwoman Professor Clare Gerada has told the Labour party conference that general practice 'has to change'. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Labour conference: GP contract not fit for 24-hour NHS
A Labour government should reform GP contracts, and scrap GP-led commissioning and the purchaser-provider divide, a shadow health minister has suggested. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: London GPs renew bid to take back out-of-hours
A GP-led social enterprise has launched a fresh bid to take charge of out-of-hours services in part of London just months after an initial bid was blocked. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Hunt: CCGs should determine primary care commissioning
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has signaled a shift towards handing CCGs greater control of primary care commissioning. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 13, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Does QOF match NHS priorities?
Some disease areas are under or over-represented in QOF compared with their impact on NHS budgets, analysis shows. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 13, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Competition rules block transfer of work out of hospitals
Hospital trusts have warned that competition rules are preventing the NHS shifting services from secondary to primary care. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 12, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
RCGP chair backed to overhaul London primary care
The appointment of RCGP chairwoman Professor Clare Gerada to develop plans to transform GP services in London has been welcomed by the medical director of Londonwide LMCs. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 6, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP providers ruled out by CCGs over competition fears
Competition regulations are frightening CCGs into ruling out commissioning services from GP providers, a leading health solicitor has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 6, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CCGs should help develop general practice, says NHS England official
The man leading NHS England's consultation on the future of general practice says CCGs must play a greater role in developing primary care, warning that GP commissioners' expertise as providers risks being wasted. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 4, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
RCGP chair questions future of independent contractor status
RCGP chairwoman Professor Clare Gerada has called for a debate on the future of GPs' independent contractor status, warning that the NHS must consider radical solutions to the challenges it faces. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 4, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Give GPs hospital board posts, says RCP
GPs should be handed roles on hospital boards as part of the NHS response to the Francis inquiry, according to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - September 3, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
