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Posts by Alison Lowerson:
General Practice – Vaccinations and Immunisations
Overview During 2019, NHS England and NHS Improvement undertook a significant review of vaccination and immunisation payment mechanisms. The previous payment...
Children Are Suffering In Silence
Vulnerable Children Children are often the ones most affected by family circumstances, the justice system, education, abuse, and medical factors such...
NHS Data-Sharing Project Scrapped
Care.data The Department of Health in England is scrapping Care.data. It was a programme of work led by NHS England and...
Locums – All You Need To Know
What is a locum? Locums offer a temporary solution to staffing shortages. They provide practices with a flexible short term solution,...
Is 7 Day Access The Answer?
A Reduction in A&E Attendances The topic hasn’t gone away but the stats keep coming, and Pulse Today has recently...
Raising Awareness
Campaigns Every day, week or every month there’s an awareness campaign and there seems to be more of them than ever....
Basic Life Support
CPR in GP practices One of the CQCs latest mythbusters is about Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in GP practices. The mythbuster looks...
Safeguarding – Children at Play
What is safeguarding? According to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), “Safeguarding is the action that...
Not Had Your Inspection Yet? Be Prepared!
The CQC Notification We had our CQC inspection this week and if it hadn’t have been for the fact that we...
A Practical Guide to Healthy Caring
A companion guide for our unsung heroes Caring is such a hidden, often overlooked role and carers are unsung heroes. It’s...