GP recruitment and retention - top tips
Sarah Want gives advice for getting it right for your healthcare practice as we are seeing an increase in the number of experienced GPs retiring early leading to an increase in recruiting less experienced salaried GPs Related items fromOnMedica General practice bucks trend in increasing NHS workforce College welcomes plans for overseas GP recruitment Policy and planning for NHS workforce - ‘not fit for purpose’ Social media could deter people from becoming GPs GPs welcome contract boost (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - May 1, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Headache and migraine disease insight report
This report by Wilmington Healthcare explores the impact headache and migraine have on admissions and reflects on how improved commissioning of services can help to reduce admissions through better management of patients Related items fromOnMedica Assessment of headaches in primary care Combined oral contraception, migraine and stroke GPs underestimate impact of migraine on patients Migraine may be linked to heightened cardiovascular disease risk (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - April 30, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
How can GP practices guard against cyber-attacks?
This article explores how practices can ensure their defences are up to the challenge of any future cyber-attacks Related items fromOnMedica NHS cyber-attack was ‘inevitable’ given poor investment Hospitals and GPs hit by cyber-attack The NHS had a wake-up call after the WannaCry cyber-attacks – what is Europe doing to respond? Your files are locked NHS 'could have prevented' WannaCry ransomware attack (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - April 24, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Why staff are your greatest asset in the journey out of financial special measures
When North Bristol NHS Trust was placed into special measures in 2016, chief executive Andrea Young found that staff wanted to be part of the solution. She takes us through their journey. Related items fromOnMedica Conditions in the NHS have worsened, new report shows NHS investment in child health will reap rewards Decade of underfunded primary care must end, says GP leader Community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing What can we learn from international systems of place-based care? (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - March 22, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Is the legal bar for convicting HCPs of manslaughter 'too low'?
While the MPS seems to think so, Hannah Travis at Bolt Burdon Kemp looks at the implications Related items fromOnMedica RCGP raises concerns over Bawa-Garba case Rapid review ordered into medical manslaughter laws Call to change manslaughter charges to culpable homicide Bawa-Garba case: was the GMC biased? Confidence intervals (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - March 16, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
What can we learn from international systems of place-based care?
Having clinicians both leading and delivering system transformation has emerged as a common thread in examples of place-based care across the globe, reports Thomas Marsh Related items fromOnMedica The Alzira model Community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing Give us long-term solutions, not quick fixes, urge health and social care leaders Investing in social care has a greater impact on population health Personalisation of care (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - March 8, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing
An outline of PHE ’s vision and strategy followed by a case study of how social prescribing helps patients to manage their long-term conditions Related items fromOnMedica Making integrated care happen Life expectancy gap continues to widen Multi-million-pound funding for GP innovation Social prescribing can free up GPs ’ time and save resources (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - March 1, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Creating a smokefree NHS: how e-cigarettes can help
PHE explains the role ECs can play in helping create a smokefree NHS but stresses there is no 'one size fits all ’ approach when it comes to developing vaping policies Related items fromOnMedica Doctors should encourage smokers to switch to vaping Vaping may boost pneumonia risk, preliminary findings suggest Smoking cessation Headlines saying ‘vaping might cause cancer’ are wildly misleading Hospitals 'must' become tobacco-free (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - February 21, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Making integrated care happen
Michael Macdonnell, national director of health system transformation at NHS England, discusses integrated care and building on the work from the vanguard programme Related items fromOnMedica How vanguards are increasing healthy life expectancy in Nottinghamshire Ealing ’s integrated care journey: learning from international models Approaches to integrated care ‘too top down’, says health alliance Integrated health and social care workforces is the future Stick with STPs, government and NHS urged (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - February 16, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Valuation of the surgery premises - could your practice be worth more?
Does a retired partner think that your surgery premises are worth more than the other partners do? Are they falling out about it? If so, you are not alone, says Oliver Pool. Related items fromOnMedica Sale and leaseback of GP premises: the pros and cons Doctors welcome investment in GP premises When do practices require a lease? Time management in healthcare How to carry out an audit (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - February 13, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Update on government scheme for birth injury cases
Solicitor Sezan Taner explains what healthcare professionals need to know Related items fromOnMedica All pregnant women with type 1 diabetes should be offered continuous glucose monitoring Toddler and maternal fructose intake linked to asthma Women happier with maternity care, national survey shows First trimester exposure to antithyroid drugs linked with birth defects Premature births linked to bacterial changes in vagina (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - February 6, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Rapid resolution and redress scheme for severe avoidable birth injury
Solicitor Sezan Taner explains what healthcare professionals need to know Related items fromOnMedica All pregnant women with type 1 diabetes should be offered continuous glucose monitoring Toddler and maternal fructose intake linked to asthma Women happier with maternity care, national survey shows First trimester exposure to antithyroid drugs linked with birth defects Premature births linked to bacterial changes in vagina (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - February 6, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Learning from complaints: why patient involvement matters
The Psychiatric Teaching Unit at Derbyshire Healthcare NHSFT has won accolades for its programme of involving patients in the teaching and training of undergraduate medical students - here's why Related items fromOnMedica GP complaints system ‘must improve’ Families of older patients struggle to complain Complaints to primary care rose by 9.7% in past year Check history and ensure informed consent for contraception Difficult patients really are harder to diagnose (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - January 30, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
The winter crisis is fast becoming an unwanted British tradition
Ciaran Harper reflects on the NHS winter crisis and its impact Related items fromOnMedica Give us long-term solutions, not quick fixes, urge health and social care leaders NHS 111 calls hit new high as winter pressures build Sickness surveillance system hopes to ease winter pressures BMA calls for increased funding to end annual winter crisis Long-term solutions needed to address winter pressure (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - January 23, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
How vanguards are increasing healthy life expectancy in Nottinghamshire
Eleanor Pearce-Willis sheds light on how lessons learned from vanguard programmes across Nottinghamshire are being applied to the development of the area ’s accountable care system Related items fromOnMedica Give public say on US style make-over of healthcare, Hunt urged GPs need to prioritise mental health more, say experts Stick with STPs, government and NHS urged CQC head calls for better GP-hospital-care home integration (Source: OnMedica Views)
Source: OnMedica Views - January 9, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
