Babylon GP at Hand given green light to expand NHS services to Birmingham
Babylon GP at Hand has been given the green light to expand to the UK's second-largest city, the digital company has confirmed.
During an NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG meeting yesterday, it was announced the digital-first GP service will be allowed to expand its NHS offering to patients in Birmingham, after NHS England decided to lift its previous block. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 14, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
GP practices yet to claim millions in CQC reimbursement fees
GP practices have yet to claim millions of pounds in CQC fees from the past year, Pulse understands.
Only 3,553 GP practices in England were reimbursed for their CQC fees in 2017/18, a freedom of information request submitted by a practice to NHS England has revealed. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 13, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Nearly all patients reject registering with digital-first GP services, survey finds
The vast majority of patients do not want to register with a digital-first GP service, according to a survey by independent consumer body Which?.
The survey, of over 1,500 people, found 96% were unlikely to switch from their current practice to an online service in the next year.
Over half (52%) said they will definitely not change from their current GP, it reported.
The NHS long-term plan pledged to offer every patient in England the right to choose‘digital-first’ primary care over the next five years.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 12, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Primary and community care staff shortages could undermine long term plan, think tank warns
The NHS’s aim to keep people out of hospital by investing at community level could remain an‘unrealised aspiration’ due to workforce shortages, a leading think tank has warned.
Areport by the Health Foundation, published today, found that there is an‘ongoing deterioration’ in the number of staff employed in primary and community care, nursing and mental health. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 12, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick HR Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Underfunding drives practices to stop providing non-core services
Eight GP practices in Buckinghamshire have decided to discontinue the provision of underfunded non-core services.
Writing to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire& Oxfordshire (Bucks, Berks& Oxon) LMCs last December, the practices announced their decision to cease the provision of seven different services by August this year at the latest.
These include ear syringing, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, spirometry for diagnosis, ECGs, ring pessary, PSA monitoring and MGUS monitoring. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 11, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Council's drastic public health cuts will leave practices'unable to cope '
Severe cuts across the board to public health services proposed by a Midlands council will see practices inundated with patients, as they will be expected to cover work previously performed by sexual health and alcohol and drug dependency services.
The major cut backs by Walsall Council are thought to be some of the most drastic yet, by a single council. They stem from a reduction in central Government funding, which has forced the council to consult on reducing spending across many areas. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 11, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Finance Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
The PM edit: Anthony Howarth in his own words
Management in Practice is speaking to a series of PMs on the front-line about what being a practice manager means to them.
Reporter Valeria Fiore talks toAnthony Howarth, business manager at West Gorton Medical Centre in Manchester about the challenges practice management poses and the future of the profession. Q. How has being a practice manager changed since you first started out in the profession? Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 8, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Practice management Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Practices required to offer a quarter of appointments online by July
GP practices must make at least 25% of their appointments available for online booking by July, as part of the new GP contract.
The contract, negotiated by the BMA and NHS England, said digital access to GP services should increase for all patients, with the hope that this will help practices manage workload.
This comes after the NHS long-term plan pledged digital appointments to all patients, and said digital GP models will help grow GP numbers. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 8, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patient Access Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
National GP Connect rollout to allow practices to share patient records by March
Practices across the country could be in a position to share GP records with secondary care providers as early as March, Management in Practice understands. GP Connect, an NHS Digital programme, allows clinical staff in primary, secondary and community care to access patients’ GP records across different IT systems. NHS Digital told Management in Practise that other functions of GP Connect include allowing authorised users to manage appointments and clinicians to access patients’ medications and allergies.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 7, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
PHE heart age campaign regional pilot sent hundreds of patients to their GP
A pilot of Public Health England’s controversial'heart age' test covering one part of England, sent nearly 800 patients to their GP over two months, according to the campaign evaluation.
The trial, which took place in February and March in parts of the South West of England, involved pharmacies encouraging people to take an online test to find out their‘heart age’ and risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 6, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Six Liverpool practices threatened with closure following GP recruitment problems
Liverpool-based non-profit Primary Care Connect has bowed to ongoing recruitment issues and will cease the management of six practices in the city from June this year.
The practices who have been informed that Primary Care Connect– set up by a group of Liverpool GPs– has given notice on its fixed-term contracts are Everton Road; Anfield Health; Garston; Netherley Health Centre; West Speke; and Park View. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 6, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Practices to get £5 extra per child vaccinated under new MMR catch-up scheme
GP practices will receive an extra£5 for every child aged 10-11 they vaccinate with the MMR vaccine from April, under the new GP contract.
The five-year deal, agreed by NHS England and the BMA, includes the extra payment as part of an MMR catch-up campaign, which aims to reduce the current number of measles outbreaks.
This comes as a recent surge in measles cases led PHE to urge patients ensure if they have had two doses of the MMR vaccine, to check with their GP before going on holiday. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 5, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Finance Patients Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Practices will not have guaranteed funding for extended hours access
There is no guarantee GP practices will continue to receive funding for the provision of the extended hours access directed enhanced service (DES), under the new GP contract.
From July, the extended hours access DES will be transferred from practices to the new primary care networks.
The change, which forms part of a the five-year GP contract, means NHS England will no longer directly pay practices to deliver the service, although the BMA said the money should flow from the networks into the practices. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Finance Practice development Latest News Source Type: news
Primary care networks must cover patients from practices that remain solo
All patients will need to be covered by a primary care network, even if not all practices join them, according to the new GP contract.
The new five-year deal, published last week, aims to get 100% geographical coverage of primary care networks from 1 July this year. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patients Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Practices to give patients full digital access to medical records retrospectively from April 2020
Patients will be offered online access to their full medical records retrospectively from April 2020, as stated in the GP contract.
GP practices will be expected to make progress in 2019/20 towards offering online medical records, a requirement that will become contractual from April 2020, according to the new GP contract. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patients Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
