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New funding for premises
January 23, 2015
The NHS Five Year Forward View Last week NHS England announced the launch of a £1bn investment in primary care premises, which is part of additional funding announced to support…
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Families, Children and Young People
January 14, 2015
The CQC rate Practices against particular population groups The CQC now inspects and rates practices against six population groups – older people, long term conditions, mother’s babies and children, working…
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Winter Pressures
January 9, 2015
No spare capacity to deal with spike in demand Each year it is a growing concern that more pressure is put on NHS services in the winter months. GP Practices…
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Not enough having the Flu vaccine
December 29, 2014
Why aren’t eligible patients having their flu jab sooner? Each year from October, GP practices offer eligible patients a flu jab in order to minimise the spread and impact of…
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Read All About It
December 22, 2014
Magazines in the waiting room I read recently that £12.6m worth of magazines get stolen every year from waiting rooms. I appreciate some patients wait longer than others to be…
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People with Long Term Conditions
December 18, 2014
The CQC rate Practices against particular population groups The CQC now inspects and rates practices against six population groups – older people, long term conditions, mothers babies and children, working…
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Survival of the fittest
December 12, 2014
Practice Managers face unprecedented pressures As Practice Managers we face unprecedented pressures from CQC inspections, active involvement with Clinical Commissioning Groups, constant changes to the GP contract and frequent employment…
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A storm in a CQC cup
December 5, 2014
What is Intelligent Monitoring? As part of their new inspection regime, the CQC published their Intelligent Monitoring report for GP practices across the country last month, understandably it has caused…
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