Role of pharmacists is set to grow and grow
Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for NHS England Dr Keith Ridge gave a clear message to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Annual Conference 2015Related items from OnMedicaGPs welcome closer work with pharmacistsPharmacists to deliver flu vaccinations under new advanced serviceApplications invited for £15m clinical pharmacy pilots NHS provides £15m for pharmacists in GP surgeriesThe NHS needs a defrag (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - October 6, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Why don’t dementia strategies work?
Government interest in dementia can cause problems for people with a long-term interest in improving the lives of people affected by it, says professor June AndrewsRelated items from OnMedicaDementia care still patchyOne in five people with dementia gets no supportAll-Parliamentary group calls for long-term dementia planPeople with dementia let down by health and social care services, say GPsDementia and stroke funding remains too low, say experts (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - September 29, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Trusting data is the next stage of the NHS’s digital journey
Professor Michael Thick, the transplant surgeon who took on the poisoned chalice of clinical leadership at NHS Connecting for Health and is now chief clinical officer at IMS Maxims, makes the case for a new way of looking at the electronic patient recordRelated items from OnMedicaEPR is a strategy, not a technologyTop 10 tips to meet the 'Digital Challenge'Online access to all health records by 2018Plans launched to improve technology in the health serviceHunt calls for IT revolution (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - September 23, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Trusting data is the next stage of the NHS’ digital journey
Professor Michael Thick, the transplant surgeon who took on the poisoned chalice of clinical leadership at NHS Connecting for Health and is now chief clinical officer at IMS Maxims, makes the case for a new way of looking at the electronic patient recordRelated items from OnMedicaEPR is a strategy, not a technologyTop 10 tips to meet the 'Digital Challenge'Online access to all health records by 2018Plans launched to improve technology in the health serviceHunt calls for IT revolution (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - September 22, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
The NHS needs a defrag
The NHS is desperate for a defrag and we need to start today, says Graham PhillipsRelated items from OnMedica'Extend responsibility of pharmacists to ease GP pressure'Can pharmacists be dispensed as a 'fix-all' for GPs?Paramedics will not replace GPs, says NHSNHS provides £15m for pharmacists in GP surgeriesGPs link to new emergency ‘vanguard’ sites (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - September 16, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Britain must digitise the NHS
The call to fast track a new era of digital healthcare involves a whole lot more than simply creating a 'paperless NHS', says Eva WeberRelated items from OnMedicaNHS England scraps timelines for care.dataCare.data could harm patient-doctor relationship NHS pressures could undermine Five Year Forward ViewStevens outlines the next five years for the NHSHuman plus machine equals better medicine (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - September 8, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
The new BNF
Professor Warren Lenney explains how the re-designed publication can assist prescribers in clinical practiceRelated items from OnMedicaGPs prescribing outdated antibiotics for gonorrhoeaDoctors warned to curb antibiotic prescribingCancer Drugs Fund decisionCancer Drugs Fund axes 25 treatments from listDoctors debate long-term use of psychiatric drugs (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - September 1, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Preventing HIV
Kevin Fenton, PHE National Director for Health and Wellbeing, describes new approaches to an ongoing problemRelated items from OnMedicaHIV is becoming ‘less deadly and less infectious’Fragmented sexual health system is failing usersPublic health to focus on men who have sex with menFirst UK DIY test for HIV goes on saleUN achieves HIV treatment target 9 months early (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - September 1, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Academic world – the gender gap
Despite slowly increasing numbers, not enough women are securing senior research leadership roles, say Liz Sapey and Susan Wray from the SUSTAIN reference groupRelated items from OnMedicaMale GPs earn more if they have children Women GPs now outnumber menWomen failing to achieve senior NHS leadership roles, research findsBMA calls for more women to lead doctorsWomen under-represented in academic medicine (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - August 25, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Good clinical leadership is a must-have for improving care
With clinical and managerial leadership under the spotlight following recent reports by Sir Robert Naylor and Lord Stuart Rose, Dr Alistair Blair shares why the NHS needs to “move on from the dogma of ‘clinician good, manager bad’”Related items from OnMedicaManagers need doctors’ insight for NHS culture changeHealth managers call for an end to ‘sticking plaster solutions’Patients to set agenda for senior NHS managersAction needed to reduce tensions between clinicians and managers Most health leaders doubt NHS efficiencies possible (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - August 19, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
£1.5bn of NHS savings the government must not miss
Promises of a paperless NHS may have been a bold move from Jeremy Hunt, but an approach in Surrey could still save hundreds of millions if scaled up across the health service, writes Apira Director Geoff Broome Related items from OnMedica40 million people now have a summary care recordAudit Office slams IT system for GP recordsGP patient records to be accessible by 2015Paperless NHS: Not without Caldicott2 A man on a mission (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - August 12, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Wearables, big data, and analytics in healthcare
Mark Gamble, Senior Director at OpenText analyses how healthcare organisations are exploring ways to use wearable devices to simplify, transform and accelerate patient-centric careRelated items from OnMedicaPlans launched to improve technology in the health serviceRevisions to EU data protectionConfidentiality is top risk for GPsPerson-centred care and support presents a moment of opportunityHuman plus machine equals better medicine (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - August 4, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Palliative care
We must end the inequity in access to palliative care, says Dr Jane Collins Related items from OnMedicaFunding boost for major health conditions in NHS WalesLabour peer in new bid to legalise assisted dyingOnly half of clinicians feel patients’ end of life needs are metRCGP admits end-of-life care needs to improveNew priorities set out for care of the dying (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - July 28, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Population health management: lessons from abroad
As the journey towards health and social care integration progresses, Colin Henderson explores what lessons can be learnt from overseas initiativesRelated items from OnMedicaWhat can we learn from Germany’s experience of hospital chains?The Alzira modelNHS England announces first 29 vanguard sitesPerson-centred care and support presents a moment of opportunityUK ‘can and should do better’ in many areas of healthcare (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - July 21, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Nurse Coaching
The new paradigm of medicine and health - what’s in it for nurses? Related items from OnMedicaA burning platform – maximising the nursing contribution to the antimicrobial resistance challengeLarge GP screening role in new diabetes prevention schemeIntegrated personal commissioning pilots revealedEmpowering patients, improving outcomes, saving money: the rise of health coachingPublic should take more responsibility for own health (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - July 14, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
