Exclusive: GPs face fight for PMS cash
GPs face competition with other providers to earn back up to £200m in funding likely to be cut from PMS budgets. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs lead £2m trials of seven-day practice access
GPs in Greater Manchester are set to launch all-week services as NHS bosses meet patient groups to discuss seven-day access. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
DH's Lewisham hospital decision appeal 'disrespects' local GPs
The government's last-ditch attempt to overturn a High Court ruling to save Lewisham hospital shows no respect for the wishes of local doctors and patients, a campaigning GP has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Northern Ireland out-of-hours reform plan 'ready by September'
Plans to overhaul out-of-hours care in Northern Ireland could be finalised as early as September, after talks that could lead to GPs taking control of commissioning and providing the service. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 21, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Scores of practices link up to fight private competition
An LMC plans to form a county-wide GP provider company linking 76 practices to prevent primary care services being outsourced to private providers through the DH's any qualified provider (AQP) policy. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 21, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CCGs failing to involve hospital doctors
CCGs are breaching NHS England rules by failing to appoint consultants to board posts, a BMA survey suggests. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 20, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: CCGs fear costs of NHS 111 collapse
NHS Direct has said CCGs will be reimbursed payment for failed NHS 111 services after a GP commissioner said money meant for general practice was under threat. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 19, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: LMC demands NHS 111 audit after 11% of advice 'unsafe'
A CCG has said it will consider launching an investigation into the local NHS 111 service after a GP found unsafe advice may have been given in 11% of calls involving his patients. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 15, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS England launches future of general practice consultation
NHS England has launched a wide-ranging public consultation on the future of general practice and how it will adapt to economic and demographic changes. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 15, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Invest in primary care to tackle A&E pressure, BMA urges
The BMA has called for more investment in general practice and community services which it said could have an 'enormous impact on reducing pressure' on A&E, in its submission to Sir Bruce Keogh's major review into urgent care services. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 15, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: GP practices pressured to house private AQP providers
GP practices have been warned not to be pressured into letting any qualified provider (AQP) firms use their premises because they may not be able to charge them for it. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 12, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Seven-day working condition for access to £3.8bn integration fund
Seven-day working to support patient discharge and prevent unnecessary admissions will be one of the conditions for access to the £3.8bn fund to boost health and social care integration. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 9, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs in CCGs investigate A&Es for first time over patient safety fears
GP commissioners are for the first time investigating busy A&E departments over patient safety fears and concerns about staff shortages. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 9, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Government should ensure NHS has safe staffing levels, major report says
A groundbreaking report has called for the government to ensure that the NHS has safe staffing levels and that staff are 'well supported'. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 6, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs fear workload rise as AQP services expand by a quarter
The number of services that can be commissioned under the any qualified provider (AQP) scheme has expanded by 26% in recent months, raising fears that GPs cannot keep track of increasingly fragmented services. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 6, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
