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What will the Government proposals for the 2025/26 contract …
5 天之前 · Last summer, Mr Streeting said GP practices would be given incentives to offer patients continuity of care, indicating that poorer performing practices would receive less money. And at the start of this year, Labour promised to remove ‘burdensome’ bureaucracy from GPs, but asked for better continuity of care in return. NHS England …
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2024 in review: The rise of the physician associates
1 天前 · If the summer was scant with physician associate updates, the autumn was anything but. The RCGP voted to completely oppose the use of PAs in general practice, as well as agreeing on a new set of guidance to limit the scope of practice for physician associates already working within general practice.The GPC similarly voted to completely ‘phase …
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GP workload concern as private hospital admissions reach ‘record …
2024年6月4日 · This was more than any previous year, and 7% higher than 2022, which was also a record year for private hospital admissions. But GPs said that patients treated privately are often being sent back to their GPs with requests for investigations, medications and ongoing care that usually would have been done in secondary care.
Almost half of England's GP practices have started taking collective ...
2024年8月13日 · Exclusive Almost half (46%) of England’s GP practices are taking some form of collective action, with one in four putting a limit on the number of patients they see in a day, a Pulse survey has revealed.. The snapshot survey of 283 GP partners from different practices – representing 5% of the practices in England – found that two-thirds were either already limiting patient contacts, or ...
Same-day GP care at scale should be ‘mandatory’, says pioneer PCN
2024年2月26日 · Exclusive Same-day access hubs should be rolled out across primary care ‘in a mandatory way’, according to the pioneer PCN highlighted in the seminal report laying out the NHS’s plans for general practice.. The 2022 Fuller Stocktake recommendations, accepted in full by NHS England, highlighted the Foundry PCN in East Sussex for its success in managing urgent demand by separating patients ...
NHSE credits recovery plan as GPs see extra four million patients …
2024年1月4日 · GPs have provided four million more appointments in a month, compared to the same period before the pandemic, new figures have shown. NHS Digital data published today shows more than 31.4 million appointments – excluding vaccinations – were delivered by GP practices in November last year, with NHS England saying it was ‘the busiest November on …
Same-day hubs are a ‘national imperative’, claims under fire ICB
2024年3月21日 · Pulse had previously revealed the proposals to effectively mandate the use of same-day hubs by introducing the requirement in its single local enhanced service offer, meaning practices will lose out on vital funding if they didn’t take part.. The hub model, based out of PCNs or groups of PCNs, aimed to ‘deliver a single point …