Revealed: Time for Care programme extended beyond March deadline
NHS England’s flagship Time for Care programme has been extended beyond its deadline of March 2019, Management in Practice can exclusively confirm.
Given the success of the programme– which has allowed participating practices to save 295,897 hours of admin time and 176,808 hours of clinical time since its inception– NHS England has decided to extend the scheme beyond March 2019. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 10, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Practice development Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Long term plan: the sector reacts
NHS England has published its long awaited long term plan earlier this week, confirming its anticipated commitment to prioritise primary and community care.
As part of measures to better care for patients at community level, primary care and local services will receive£4.5bn a year in real terms by 2023/24 through a ring-fenced investment that NHS England said‘will grow faster than the overall NHS budget’. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 9, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Finance Practice development Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
What the NHS long term plan means for general practice
The NHS long term plan, published this week, placed a stronger focus than ever before on investing in primary care and community health services.
Under the plan, the two sectors will receive a significant funding boost by 2023-24, which will be used to reduce demand pressures, expand the workforce and create new services. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 9, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
CQC to mark practices based on how'carer friendly' they are
The CQC will assess GP practices on their ability to support carers, under guidelines laid out in the NHS long-term plan.
NHS England's plan for the next 10 years said new quality marks will help to identify carer-friendly practices going forward. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 9, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick CQC Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Fire leaves Surrey GP practice significantly damaged
A GP practice in Chiddingfold, Surrey has been left damaged following a fire at around 3am on 7 January.
The fire significantly damaged Chiddingfold surgery, which as a result is now closed, but no fatalities nor injuries to patients or staff were reported.
A number of residents from houses nearby the practice were evacuated, according to a statement by Surrey Police. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 9, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patient Access Practice management Premises Latest News Source Type: news
New GP contract to mandate practices to join primary care networks
GP practices in England can expect changes to their contract from April mandating them to join networks of 30-50,000 patients in return for a major funding boost, our sister publication Pulse has learned. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 7, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Finance Practice development Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Ambulances routinely delaying arrival after emergency calls from GP practices
Patients who need an ambulance at a GP surgery are routinely facing waits twice as long as patients who call 999 from elsewhere, a major investigation by our sister publication Pulse has revealed.
Freedom of information responses from 10 of the 13 ambulance trusts across the UK show that, without exception, the average wait for patients who are with healthcare professionals is far longer than for members of the public. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patients Premises Latest News Source Type: news
Ambulances routinely delaying treatment to emergency calls from GP practices
Patients who need an ambulance at a GP surgery are routinely facing waits twice as long as patients who call 999 from elsewhere, a major investigation by our sister publication Pulse has revealed.
Freedom of information responses from 10 of the 13 ambulance trusts across the UK show that, without exception, the average wait for patients who are with healthcare professionals is far longer than for members of the public. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patients Premises Latest News Source Type: news
Patients in deprived areas face greater struggle for GP appointments
People living in deprived areas of England face greater health inequalities in relation to GP services than other NHS services, new research suggests.
Theanalysis by the Nuffield Trustfound that patients in poor areas found it harder to get a GP appointment than their counterparts in the wealthiest places and that the number of patients per GP was higher. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Government rules out exempting practices from GDPR subject access requests
Practices will not be given the right to charge for patient information requests as it would‘weaken the rights of patients’, culture, media and sport minister Margot James has said.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force in May, practices can no longer charge a nominal fee for digging out patient information.
GPs say that since the data has had to be provided for free, they have seen a large rise in time-consuming requests which is adding to costs and GP workloads Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 3, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patient Access Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
NHS England ’s practice manager mentoring and coaching support: all the details
Practice managers in England have been invited to express their interest in mentoring and coaching support offered by NHS England.
The support is funded through the practice manager development programme. As of June 2018, £1m of the£6m that was in 2016 committed to the programme over a three-year period has been spent. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 2, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Practice development Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Patients miss one in 20 GP appointments at a cost of £200m, warns NHS England
One in 20 GP surgery appointments are being wasted because patients do not turn up and fail to warn surgeries they are not coming, costing the NHS over£200m annually.
The latest NHS Digital GP appointments data suggests that 15.4m GP appointments are going to waste every year because patients who don’t turn up are not giving staff sufficient notice to make the appointments available to other patients. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 2, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
GP IT systems set for major overhaul as DHSC launches procurement process
The Government has launched the procurement process for providers of new GP IT systems, marking the first shake-up to the market in over a decade.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the'GP IT Futures framework' would open up competition to more providers and ensure more systems were available that are suited to'the digital age'. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 2, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: vfiore Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Practice development Practice management Latest News Source Type: news
Ask the expert: we need to cut costs in the practice. How can I persuade the partners to take action?
Angela Sharda asks our panel how practice managers can work with GP partners to make savings Joe Hawes Chartered financial planner, Carter Backer Winter
With practice funding stretched to the limit and patient expectations higher than ever, having to choose between essential services and essential supplies seems almost impossible. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - December 28, 2018 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Ask The Expert Latest News Source Type: news
GP surgeries: the next generation
In October, NHS Property Services crowned the winner of its competition to find a design vision for the GP practice of the future. Valeria Fiore talks to Oliver Salway, director of Softroom, the firm behind the winning pitch
Online consultations and the new NHS App: these are just some of the technologies that are reshaping general practice. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - December 27, 2018 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
