Private firm's alternative career structure attracts disenchanted salaried GPs
06 Sep 10
A private firm says it is recruiting a stream of GPs on the back of uncertainty over the white paper and the lack of career progression for salaried GPs.
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Millions of patients 'can't get through to GP' on telephone
06 Sep 10
Millions of patients are being prevented from accessing their GP because they are met with an engaged tone when telephoning their local surgery, new research has claimed.
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Choose and Book use flagging as GP incentives pulled
06 Sep 10
Exclusive: Choose and Book is being left to wither on the vine as large numbers of PCTs stop paying GPs for using the system, Pulse can reveal.
GPs left facing funding shortfall as extra investment in enhanced services fails to materialise
02 Sep 10
Exclusive: Fewer than half of PCTs have increased their investment in enhanced services this year, despite repeated Government assurances that GPs would be able to offset successive pay freezes with extra investment.
Practice size 'makes no difference' to QOF achievement
01 Sep 10
The quality of care provided in small and single-handed practices is comparable to that provided by larger practices, an analysis by primary care researchers has shown.
NHS managers to go head-to-head with private sector to provide GP commissioning support
27 Aug 10
NHS bosses are preparing to pitch themselves into competition with the private sector to offer support to GP commissioning consortia by re-inventing themselves as social enterprises, in moves backed by GP leaders.
GPs protest as out-of-hours contract transferred to private company
06 Sep 10
More than 200 doctors have delivered a petition to health secretary Andrew Lansley in protest at NHS managers’ decision to transfer out-of-hours care in their area to a private firm.
GPs may have to inherit some PCT debts, Buckman warns
01 Sep 10
Exclusive: GP consortia may have to accept taking on some PCT debts when they assume full commissioning power, but they should not be forced to prop up expensive Darzi centre and PFI contracts, GPC chair Dr Laurence Buckman said this week.
GP vacancies up as locums report 'unprecedented demand'
31 Aug 10
Practices are finding it increasingly hard to fill GP vacancies, according to new figures from the NHS Information Centre, in the latest sign of recovery for the GP jobs market.
RCGP move to temporary premises
27 Aug 10
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QOF experts advise some thresholds 'should be raised to 100%'
26 Aug 10
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GPC to push for optional commissioning DES to avoid GP contract rewrite
25 Aug 10
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Single-handed GPs claim 'aggressive' PCTs are targeting them for closure
25 Aug 10
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NICE invites new QOF indicator submissions
24 Aug 10
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GPC reveals 'fundamental principles' for GP commissioning
23 Aug 10
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Department of Health warns GPs could inherit PCT debts
20 Aug 10
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HMRC tax clampdown leaves GPs facing £250,000 tax bills
19 Aug 10
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GPs 'can spot long-term sick three years early'
18 Aug 10
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Darzi centre facing closure 'cheaper than neighbouring practices'
17 Aug 10
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Talks between GP groups fail to bring consensus over commissioning plans
13 Aug 10
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Treat physical inactivity as a disease, argues GP expert
12 Aug 10
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GP experts welcome new QOF dementia targets
11 Aug 10
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Car smashes into GP surgery
10 Aug 10
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Primary prevention cardiovascular indicator planned for QOF
09 Aug 10
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Care record chiefs blame safety scare on 'software issue'
06 Aug 10
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Disputes over GP premises double in a year
05 Aug 10
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NICE announces new QOF indicators
03 Aug 10
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One in four practices begin commissioning talks
02 Aug 10
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BMA issues tough defence of GP pensions
30 Jul 10
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GPs not ‘lesser doctors’ if they don't commission
29 Jul 10
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'Fit note' advice line for GPs established
27 Jul 10
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Private practices and Darzi centres set for central role in GP consortiums
26 Jul 10
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Private sector services to benefit under Government plans
23 Jul 10
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Government urged to show some 'cojones' and ramp up NHS private provision
23 Jul 10
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GPs will lose cash if consortiums overspend
22 Jul 10
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GPs must police struggling colleagues under NHS revamp, says Lansley
21 Jul 10
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GMC updates web-tool to address GP legal concerns
20 Jul 10
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Government publishes plans for national outcome targets for GPs
20 Jul 10
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NHS reform could cost £3bn, says health economist
19 Jul 10
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'Alarming uncertainty' over costs in personal budget pilots
19 Jul 10
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'Don't panic' over commissioning plans, GPC tells GPs
16 Jul 10
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Private companies 'now running more than 200 GP surgeries'
15 Jul 10
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Private firms prepare major initiative on GP commissioning
14 Jul 10
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Abolition of boundaries to form centrepiece of Government's choice drive
12 Jul 10
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All GPs must join federations by 2012
12 Jul 10
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Axe falls on PCTs and SHAs
12 Jul 10
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Record rise in NHS complaints
25 Aug 10
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Union launches High Court challenge against 'unlawful' NHS reforms
25 Aug 10
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Hundreds of NHS Direct advisers set to work from home
24 Aug 10
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New dawn for commissioning as GPs start taking hold of budgets
23 Aug 10
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White paper reforms being sabotaged by managers, says NAPC
23 Aug 10
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111 number launched as hotline for non-emergency urgent care
20 Aug 10
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Commissioning shake-up could be extended across UK
18 Aug 10
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Opposing commissioning plans would be 'disastrous' for general practice, GPs warned
17 Aug 10
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Patient survey to become optional as phase-out begins
16 Aug 10
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GP consortiums set to ramp up referral management schemes
12 Aug 10
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Commissioning challenge laid bare as analysis reveals PBC cost £250m more than it saved
11 Aug 10
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Half of PCTs fail to reimburse GP maternity costs in full
10 Aug 10
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Extended hours set to disappear as PCTs review funding
09 Aug 10
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Revealed: The 30-year contract with Care UK that GP commissioners will have to honour
06 Aug 10
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PCT to become first in the country to close 'unneeded' Darzi centre
05 Aug 10
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GPs express fears over out-of-hours funding
04 Aug 10
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Spiralling legal costs for negligence claims against GPs
03 Aug 10
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Meldrum: White Paper is a 'large curate's egg'
30 Jul 10
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Local council fights GPs' corner in contract row with PCT
30 Jul 10
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Patient survey to continue to set GP pay
28 Jul 10
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No time to lose in joining commissioning consortiums, GPs warned
27 Jul 10
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McKinsey: GPs 'must close hospitals to save cash'
23 Jul 10
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GPs to commission care for all registered patients, regardless of where they live
23 Jul 10
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Commissioning ‘can be done at practice level’
22 Jul 10
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GP commissioners 'can close NHS productivity gap'
21 Jul 10
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GP access 'should be judged on wider range of measures', say experts
21 Jul 10
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Buckman: Government plans could pose 'major threat' to traditional general practice
20 Jul 10
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Burnham promises 'mother of all battles' to stop White Paper
20 Jul 10
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White Paper could 'force all GPs onto short-term APMS-style contracts'
19 Jul 10
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Government reforms to end GMS-PMS divide
16 Jul 10
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GPs split on Government’s commissioning plans
16 Jul 10
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Federations likely to 'provide not commission services', says RCGP chair
14 Jul 10
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Blood on the carpet for NHS IT
13 Jul 10
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Incentives promised for GPs as Government sets out funding plan
12 Jul 10
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Government unveils blueprint for GP commissioning revolution
12 Jul 10
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Fears of spiralling workload under toughened appraisals scheme
12 Jul 10
