Extended hours access: ‘I’ve gained valuable peer support’
With extended hours access now rolled out across England, Rachel Carter explores how practice managers really feel about the initiative
It’s been six years since the then Prime Minister David Cameron announced a£50m funding boost for improving access to general practice, placing extended hours schemes firmly on the agenda.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - June 6, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: noraelias at cogora.com Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
General practice workforce boasts 7,000 more staff than three years ago
Primary care in England now has 7,302 more full time equivalent (FTE) health professionals than three years ago, NHS Digital has revealed. This exceeds the 2016GP Forward View target to recruit an additional 5,000 health professionals into the sector by 2020.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - June 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Qualified GP workforce falls by 441, official data reveals
The number of fully-qualified GPs in England has fallen by 441 over the past year, according to figures published by NHS Digital.
Experimental GP workforcedata showed that there were 28,697 full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs in March 2019 - 1.5% lower than March 2018 which had 29,138. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - June 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Nursing retention programme extended into general practice
The NHS will extend its nursing retention programme, currently for acute and community trusts, into general practice.
The move, outlined in the NHS interim workforce plan, has been made to reduce turnover rates of nurses.
Work with primary care to extend the programme will begin by March 2020, alongside the introduction of incentives to support entry and return to practice nursing.
The scheme has been implemented in nearly half of all trusts (110) so far and seen turnover rates reduce from 12.5% to 11.9% nationally.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - June 4, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Free NHS wifi available across 95% of practices in England
Free NHS wifi is now available across 95% of GP practices in England, NHS Digital has announced. Free internet connection is available in 6,749 GP practices and 212 acute, mental health and community NHS trusts– 98% of NHS trusts– across England. NHS Digital said that the ten remaining CCGs and four trusts that do not yet offer the service in their areas are‘all underway with their own procurements and set to be live this year’.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 31, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Skype doctors freed up 2,000 GP appointments over the past two years
Doctors and nurses who are using Skype to treat older people in their homes have freed up 2,000 GP appointments, according to NHS England.
An integrated programme in Tameside - part of the NHS long term plan - set up a direct link between doctors, nurses and community teams such as care home staff and housing wardens, enabling clinicians to see and advise patients via Skype.
The Skype team receives around 8,000 calls a year. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 31, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Revealed: more surgeries than ever closed last year
Surgery closures have risen almost eight-fold in six years, hitting record levels in 2018, a major investigation by our sister publication Pulse has revealed.
Nearly two million patients have been affected by surgery closures across the UK - including full practice closures, branch closures and surgeries that closed following a merger - since 2013. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 31, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
North-West hospital trust in talks to take over five practices
A hospital trust in the North-West is in talks to take over five practices in the St Helens area, with GPs becoming employees of the trust.
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust is considering taking over the contracts of several practices in St Helens, according to an interview with its chief executive.
Chief executive Ann Marr told HSJ that she hoped the trust will be running a total of six APMS practices in the next two years and explained that the model needed more practices to run efficiently. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 30, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Hammersmith and Fulham CCG to ‘welcome’ Babylon single network
Hammersmith and Fulham CCG will‘welcome’ the application to be a single network by Babylon GP at Hand, our sister publication Pulse has learned.
The CCG has considered all the primary care network criteria and DES contract requirements and evaluated that a GP at Hand individual network is‘the best fit’ within North West London. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 30, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Ask an expert: What can I do about patients who are always late for appointments?
Deputy editor Angela Sharda asks our panel of experts how practices can prevent patients who are frequently late from disrupting the appointments system. Tracy Dell, practice manager, Plane Trees Group Practice
Practices usually allow up to ten minutes after the allotted appointment time for a patient to be seen but this depends on the circumstances and needs to be individually assessed. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 29, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Ask an expert: we have a patient who is always late for an appointment. What can I do?
Deputy editor Angela Sharda asks our panel of experts how practices can prevent patients who are frequently late from disrupting the appointments system. Tracy Dell, practice manager, Plane Trees Group Practice
Practices usually allow up to ten minutes after the allotted appointment time for a patient to be seen but this depends on the circumstances and needs to be individually assessed. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 29, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Minor ailments training for Welsh pharmacists could ‘free up GP time’
New minor ailments training for pharmacists is set to‘free up GP time’, the Welsh Government announced last week (23 May).
A£100,000 investment will see 50 pharmacists across the country receive specialist training in triaging and treating minor ailments such as chicken pox, conjunctivitis, sore throats, acute backache and acute dermatitis.
This will relieve the‘growing pressure’ on primary care services and‘free up GP time to manage more complex patient cases’, the Government said.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 29, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
GP IT Futures framework coming into force from January 2020
The GP IT Futures framework will come into force from January next year, the health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has announced.
Mr Hancock announced the launch of the new GP IT Futures contract at The King’s Fund event on digital health and care on 23 May. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 29, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
NHS England to offer'up to'£200k per selected network'accelerator' site
NHS England will be offering'up to' a reported£200,000 per selected primary care network'accelerator' site, our sister publication Pulse has learned.
Two documents seen by our sister publication Pulse, where this story was first published, revealed that NHS England is planning to shortlist'up to' two places per STP region - with a maximum of 14 - as part of the'accelerators' project. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 28, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Matt Hancock announces bid for prime minister
Health secretary Matt Hancock has put himself forward to be next prime minister following Theresa May’s resignation.
Mr Hancock took the role of health secretary in July 2018, taking over from Jeremy Hunt–who has also announced his candidacy– having previously served as culture, media and sport secretary for six months. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 28, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
