‘Inadequate’ practice urged to improve patient confidentiality
A GP practice in London is falling short on standards for safeguarding the privacy of its patients, according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Dr Dauod Yosuf Abdulrahman Shantir’s surgery in Waltham Forest– Dr Shantir’s Practice– was given an overall rating of‘inadequate’ following a CQC inspection in November, with ineffective measures to protect patient privacy and confidentiality flagged as an area of concern. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 28, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
NHS England announces plans to recruit 1,000 social prescribing workers
Primary care networks will be supported by 1,000 social prescribing workers by April 2021, under plans due to be approved by NHS England this week.
The plans for personalised care provision will see each network have access to a social prescriber link worker, whose salary will be fully funded by NHS England. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 28, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
GP practice told to pay double rent or lose premises
An 8,000-patient practice in Belfast has been told to pay double its rent or lose the premises, after its lease was taken over by developers.
The GP partners at Kensington Medical Centre first heard of the price hike when they received a letter asking them to pay almost twice their current rent - from around£50,000 to£91,550 a year– or move out by March. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 28, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Immunisation commissioner visits to practices beneficial for relationship building, study finds
Commissioners’ visits to GP practices to improve childhood immunisation uptake are beneficial for relationship building between the two parties, a study has found.
The study,Embedding commissioner visits to general practices to improve childhood immunisations, was published in the British Journal of Healthcare Management. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 25, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Practice development Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
The long term plan: primary care can and should lead the way
After the digesting the 136-page document, practice mangerDaniel Vincentshares his thought on the long term plan and what it means for the NHS, and for general practice
The much anticipated long term plan for the NHS was finally published the other week. We only had to wait until the fifth paragraph of the 136-page document to see the, for primary care, highly anticipated promise in black and white. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 25, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
CCG may struggle to ‘pay its bills’ due to financial pressure of Babylon GP at Hand
The CCG hosting Babylon GP at Hand might not be able to ‘pay its bills’, due to finanicial pressures caused by tens of thousands of patients signing up to the digital-first NHS GP service.
NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG reported a£2.5m cash deficit, citing Babylon GP at Hand as the‘key driver’ of cashflow issues, and said the situation is‘expected to worsen in the near future’.
Currently, Babylon GP at Hand has around 34,000 patients, according to the CCG papers. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 25, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patient Access Latest News Source Type: news
GP practices can now order a single flu vaccine for all adults, says NHS England
GP practices can now order a single flu vaccine for all patients over the age of nine for the next flu season, NHS England has announced.
The new vaccine– QIVc– was licenced for use in the UK last week, and has been ruled safe and effective in all age groups over 9 years by the Government’s vaccination advisory body. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 25, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Private online provider partners with GP networks covering 88,000 patients
Private online GP provider Push Doctor has partnered with two primary care networks in Birmingham, giving 88,000 NHS patients access to video consultations.
In the announcement yesterday, Push Doctor said it agreed a deal with 'Urban Health' and'I3' primary care networks, which cover 13 practices in the Birmingham area. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 24, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
All GP practices to offer the NHS App by July
All practices in England will offer the NHS App to patients by 1 July 2019, NHS England said today.
The App, which was trialled with over 3,000 patients across 30 GP practices in England, is now being rolled out in England and is already available for patients to download from Apple App or Google Play stores.
A web-based version of it will be launched in the following months, NHS England said. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 23, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patient Access Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
GP practices to offer NHS App by July
All practices in England will offer the NHS App to patients by 1 July 2019, NHS England said today.
The App, which was trialled with over 3,000 patients across 30 GP practices in England, is now being rolled out in England and is already available for patients to download from Apple App or Google Play stores.
A web-based version of it will be launched in the following months, NHS England said. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 23, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patient Access Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
GP practices to offer NHS App by end of June
All practices in England will offer the NHS App to patients by 1 July 2019, NHS England said today.
The App, which was trialled with over 3,000 patients across 30 GP practices in England, is now being rolled out in England and is already available for patients to download from Apple App or Google Play stores.
A web-based version of it will be launched in the following months, NHS England said. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 23, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patient Access Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: patients behaving badly
In an ideal world, all patient interaction would be easy and we would get on well with everyone registered at our practice. However, this isn’t always the case and when practice staff encounter patients whose behaviour is difficult to deal with, it can be tricky to know how to respond as Dr Ellie Mein, medico-legal advisor at the Medical Defence Union (MDU), explains.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 23, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Personal Practice Source Type: news
Is Skype really the way forward for online consultations?
When NHS England Medical Director Stephen Powis urged the healthcare sector to use Skype video calls to treat patients, did he really mean Skype? Dan Worman CEO ofRefero explains.
The report released towards the end of last year by the Royal College of Physicians, backed by Powis, highlighted how improving the current outpatient appointments system could save the NHS millions. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 23, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Brexit: NHS EU staff to be reimbursed cost of settled status
EU citizens, including NHS staff, who have paid£65 to cover the costs of their settled status application will be reimbursed, the Government has said.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Ms May said that‘having listened to concerns from members and organisations like the3million group’, the Government will no longer request EU citizens to pay the application fee when the scheme is rolled out in full on 30 March. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 22, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick HR Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
NHS EU staff to be reimbursed cost of settled status
EU citizens who have paid£65 to cover the costs of their settled status application will be reimbursed, the Government has said.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Ms May said that‘having listened to concerns from members and organisations like the3million group’, the Government will no longer request EU citizens to pay the application fee when the scheme is rolled out in full on 30 March. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 22, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick HR Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
