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Exclusive The NHS Commissioning Board is drawing up plans for a national performers’ list, in a move away from ‘local doctor only’ policies developed by trusts to prevent a repeat of the Dr Daniel Ubani out-of-hours case. |
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Exclusive Private out-of-hours services are more expensive and rated worse by patients than those delivered by not-for-profit alternatives such as GP co-operatives, a major Pulse analysis reveals.
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Exclusive Plans to extend GP training by a year could see fourth-year registrars drafted in to plug service gaps and fill gaps in out-of-hours rotas, Pulse can reveal.
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To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee there will be an extra bank holiday in June. This has been scheduled for 5 June 2012. So will you have to pay your employees for the additional bank holiday? |
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GP Dr David McMaster spent a shift in A&E to find out first hand what the priorities were for reshaping urgent care services. |
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Dr Ruth Livingstone explains how GPs are using the new NHS 111 number to redesign urgent care services. |
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Dr Simon Abrams describes how to effectively audit out-of-hours staff using the urgent and emergency care toolkit. |
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Cameras follow Dr John Tobias on a typical day, as he sees patients, makes home visits and describes the difficulties of balancing a rising tide of paperwork with good patient care. |
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Watch a full-length video interview with the GPC chair on practice boundaries, out-of-hours care and what he considers his finest moment. |
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The RCGP's clinical champion for urgent and emergency care, Dr Agnelo Fernandes, explains how the '111' number could help improve the standard of out-of-hours care. |
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Dr Krishna Korlipara started one of the first GP co-operatives for out-of-hours care, and argues they represent a far better model than failing out-of-hours companies. |
![]() GPs and the organisations they set up should run 111, argues the co-founder of Harmoni |
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We need to treat the cause of our out-of-hours problems - not just the symptoms |

