Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
So, lots of newly qualified GPs don’t and won’t have jobs as GPs. One fully qualified GP is driving a taxi because he cannot find enough work as a doctor despite Government pledges to increase access to primary care and extend surgery opening hours. Next week 2,500 doctors will qualify as GPs and the vast majority have [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The Chief Medical Officer's (CMO) report for appraising and revalidating doctors, launched yesterday (Wednesday 23 July 2008), was given cautious backing by the BMA. Chairman of the BMA, Dr Hamish Meldrum, said: "The BMA is supportive of plans to appraise doctors in order to develop and improve their skills. However, it is essential that the CMO's proposals are not unduly burdensome for doctors and...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Plans to improve patient safety and support professionals in sustaining their high standards, were today set out by the Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
YAKIMA, Wash. -- A new Pacific Northwest medical school celebrated its opening Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College of Osteopathic Medicine, which plans to send primary care doctors to serve in rural and low-income areas in a five-state region.
Ph articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Information forward more than 3,500 patients at a surgery in Greater Manchester has been secret, freedom from disease bosses have before-mentioned. Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust (PCT) said the details were on a back-up tape stolen on 12 July. It contained the names, dates of birth and addresses of patients at Trinity Medical Centre in Littleborough. PCT bosses said the tape, what...
By the way... (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've seen about Wolverhampton PCT coming bottom of 69 mental health trusts. An "aministrative error" meant they submitted the work late. After a bit of digging I can exclusively reveal that this administrative error was due to a dog eating their homework. Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust came bottom of the 69 mental health trusts in the Healthcare Commission report which assessed four key areas....
Leah Fraser (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week, most people across Wallasey received a small blue card from the Primary Care Trust, explaining about a new service ‘Wirral Keep Well’. Presumably the names and addresses of patients registered with local GPs have been used. It seems this is not just a one-off initiative about collecting anonymous data to improve PCT services. It [...]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wolverhampton is today ranked last in a national survey of mental health care because somebody pushed the wrong button on a computer 11 months ago. This meant data arrived late for the Healthcare Commission’s (HCC) review resulting in the city’s Primary Care Trust being automatically given the lowest possible mark in almost half of the 58 [...]
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
The UK's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence has published new guidance for the month of July . There are two new Clinical Guidelines that impact on primary care. Respiratory tract infections – antibiotic prescribing ( PDF ) covers treatment of upper respiratory tract infections including otitis media, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, common cold, sinusitis and cough. The guideline discusses...
Ph articles (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Three pensioners have won their High Court affair to receive a "sight-saving" drug - paving the way for others to be given it too. Warwickshire Primary Care Trust said it would now consols the drug, Lucentis. The move came hind maker Novartis agreed to start a "cost-sharing" deal earlier than expected. The RNIB said there was now no excuse for the NHS in England to circumscribe passage to the drug,...
Commercial Insurance Knowledge (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Good for my job security, I guess : “You might ask, won’t the existing PCPs need to accept even these low insurance payments? After all, they need to see some patients to generate an income. Bookmark To:
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
HEALTH chiefs were criticised last night after it emerged that a new NHS dentist surgery could have opened in a Suffolk village if the Primary Care Trust had supported the move.
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The English Pharmacy Board (EPB) of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain welcomes the government’s recognition of the role of pharmacy in delivering patient choice through community based services, as mentioned in the NHS Next Stage Review report Our vision for primary and community care. The EPB would like to draw special attention to [...]
VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Although it has confirmed having an "informal meeting" with British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, Camden Primary Care Trust has denied that Sir Richard's company planned to launch a private bid to run a new polyclinic in the borough. According to a Gulf Times report, Virgin Healthcare has shown interest working with GPs to help develop more integrated services for patients.
Healthcare Economist (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Primary care physicians can be compensated in a number of ways. The most popular are capitation, fee-for-service, salary, or some mixture of the three. But how does the physician compensation method affect care levels? This is the question Gosden et al. (2000) try to answer in their Cochrane review. The authors [...]
