GPs plan bids for NHS 111 contracts
GP co-ops that lost out to larger providers in tendering for NHS 111 services are preparing to bid again for contracts abandoned by NHS Direct. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Lewisham hospital cuts plan ignored GPs, says High Court judge
GP commissioners' opposition to downgrading Lewisham hospital was one of the reasons the government's plan was quashed, the High Court judge who gave the ruling has revealed. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - August 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP warnings over NHS 111 'not ignored', says health minister
Health minister Lord Howe has denied ignoring GPC calls for the roll-out of NHS 111 to be slowed down to avoid putting patients at risk. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 31, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP out-of-hours providers 'should run NHS 111'
Ministers should support GP out-of-hours providers to take over 111 contracts abandoned by NHS Direct, GP leaders believe. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS Direct withdraws from 111 service
NHS Direct has revealed it is to withdraw from providing NHS 111 services across England. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP commissioners vote against putting services out to tender
Commissioners across England should follow the example of a CCG that voted unanimously against putting community services out to tender, LMC leaders have said. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CCG budgets may slip in first year, warns watchdog
CCGs may struggle to hit financial targets in 2013/14 because of delays in defining their budgets and the loss of support from strategic health authorities, a financial watchdog has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Video: New GPC chairman targets GP workload
Newly elected GPC chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul has said the government has no choice but to increase GP numbers. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Primary care must take on greater urgent care role, MPs warn
Primary care has 'an important role to play' in delivering urgent care but cannot do so without structural reform backed by funding transferred from hospitals, MPs have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPC sets out plan to integrate all unscheduled care
CCGs should integrate all out-of-hours unscheduled care under GP leadership, according to the GPC. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 22, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CCG faces £2m funding gap after overnight cut
NHS managers are cutting huge sums from CCG budgets at short notice and have yet to create a mechanism for investing in primary care, a GP and former MP has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 22, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CCG membership forces half of GPs to change clinical practice
More than half of practices say that being a CCG member has changed their clinical practice in terms of prescribing patterns, referral pathways and volume of referrals, according to research. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 22, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS 111 inquiry slams providers, commissioners and NHS England
A damning report into failings with NHS 111 found local commissioners lacked necessary skills and tried to cut costs, providers lacked capacity and capability, and NHS England failed to provide proper central oversight and support. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 18, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
'Red tape' stops doctors tackling £30bn NHS funding gap
'Red tape and a lack of support from the top' are preventing doctors from making changes to tackle the £30bn NHS funding crisis, BMA leaders have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 11, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS must be tougher on private providers, say MPs
The NHS needs to be much more 'commercially shrewd' in dealing with big contractors, a scathing report into Serco's 'substandard' management of the out-of-hours service in Cornwall has found. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 11, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
