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Will New GP Service Reduce Unplanned Emergency Admissions?
April 16, 2014
What’s it all about? A new unplanned admissions Direct Enhanced Service (DES) has been introduced as part of yet another move to reduce unnecessary emergency admissions to secondary care. The…
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CQC Registration One Year On
April 11, 2014
What was required? What a year it has been, especially since April 2013 all providers of primary medical services should have been registered with the CQC. When providers apply for…
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Do Patients Offer a New Hope?
April 4, 2014
How are they already involved? With our end of year returns almost complete, the new financial year brings a new challenge for Practices and we are facing tough times ahead.…
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An Overview of the General Practice Contract Changes for 2014-15
March 28, 2014
Positive changes The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC) has voted overwhelmingly to accept the negotiated agreement on changes to the GP contract for 2014-15, and believes that this package as…
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What Matters to Patients?
March 21, 2014
They want to be treated as a person When I get to read the results of patient surveys they regularly tell us that they think about about their experience of…
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GP Out-of-Hours Services to be Inspected and Regulated
March 13, 2014
What changed? Over 10 years ago most Practices were part of a local on-call doctors’ service which enabled patients to get through to a GP when their surgery was closed…
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Should GP Practices Consider Forming Alliances or Federations?
March 7, 2014
Federated Working As part of group of Practice Managers in our local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) we are looking at working federately. There is an acceptance in General Practice that…
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Clinical Negligence
February 25, 2014
1. Clinical negligence covers NHS and privately funded hospitals Following a discussion at a recent meeting I thought I would write about Clinical Negligence. Negligence is the breach of a…
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