Only 0.1% of patients choose video consultation, reveals digital provider
As few as 0.1% of patients are requesting video consultation when given the choice, online consultation system provider askmyGP has revealed today.
The new data represents patient contact preferences in the first quarter of 2019, across a sample of 213,000 patients in 21 practices that use askmyGP’s online triage tools.
When contacting their practice, almost half of patients, 47%, asked to talk to their GP by phone and almost a third, 28%, by secure message. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 26, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Practices should'think twice' before signing PCN contracts, warn accountants
Practices should be'thinking twice' before signing primary care network (PCN) contracts, due to potential concerns around VAT and HR issues, accountants have warned.
As part of the new five-year GP contract, practices will be provided with extra funding to join networks, which will see groups of practices serve 30-50,000 patients based on geography.
It is widely expected the vast majority of practices will be joining a network. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 26, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Only one FTE GP produced for every three graduates trained, says NHS England
For every three GPs trained as full-time equivalent (FTE) only around one remains in general practice, according to NHS England.
Speaking at Pulse Live last month, NHS England medical director for primary care Dr Nikita Kanani said more work needs to be done to attract more GPs to stay in the profession as only one for every three full-time equivalent trained GPs stays in the profession. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 25, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Physiotherapists can reduce MSK caseload burden for GPs, report finds
Advanced physiotherapists can‘reduce burden’ on GPs by managing the musculoskeletal (MSK) caseload in general practice, a new report has found. The report, published in theBritish Journal of General Practice earlier this month (9 April), evaluated the first two years of a service that provides physiotherapists as a‘first contact’ in general practice for patients with MSK conditions.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 24, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: top tips on maintaining confidentiality in the practice
Dr Kathryn Leask, medico-legal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, on how practices can ensure they uphold confidentiality at all times
Maintaining patient confidentiality is essential to the trust that exists between practice and patients. Practice staff have a duty to protect a patient’s sensitive information and most breaches of confidentiality are made inadvertently. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 24, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Practices funded to target'frequent attenders' in bid to reduce workload
Practices are being funded for a scheme that will help them focus on reducing their frequent attenders and implement interventions to refer them to other services.
North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs are implementing the'Quick-start Programme' (QSP), which is being funded as part of NHS England's Time for Care programme and will be able to identify those patients that attend more than 20 times in a year. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 24, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Editor's blog: let ’s resource practice managers properly
Data reveal that many practice managers are considering leaving the profession because of rising pressure, thinning resources and growing demand. We must stop this before it’s too late, says editorNora Elias
Management in Practice (MiP) publisher Cogora recently published a new report: Primary Concerns 2018– The State of Primary Care , which paints a worrying picture of a sector under severe pressure and struggling to cope. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 23, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Two-thirds of practice managers feel STF allocations have not boosted general practice, report finds
Two-thirds of practice managers said sustainability and transformation fund (STF) allocations had brought‘no improvement’ to general practice, a report has revealed. ThePrimary Concerns 2018: The State of Primary Care report, published last month (27 March), surveyed the readers of Cogora’s five primary care publications: Management in Practice, Healthcare Leader, Nursing in Practice, Pulse and The Pharmacist.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 22, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
‘Practice management is unrecognisable from the job I started 11 years ago’
Linda de Silva, practice manager at Freshford Practice in Braintree, Essex, talks to Costanza Pearce about her reasons for leaving the job after more than a decade
It’s clear that Linda de Silva, who has been a practice manager for many years, is dedicated to the NHS but she does not hesitate to speak out about its problems. She talks of the‘constant pressure’ of the job and describes her workload as‘impossible’. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 18, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
‘We’ll need good managers to drive us forward’
Teresa Chapman, winner of the 2018 Practice Manager of the Year award, talks to Nora Elias about her experience of innovating to turn around a practice struggling with GP shortages and funding cuts 'I’m very lucky; I have a good team to support me. And I like to be busy.’ Teresa Chapman, practice manager at Parchmore Medical Centre in Croydon, south London, is discussing how she balances the many tasks in her intense schedule. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 18, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Practice managers need further guidance on NHS app implementation, pilot finds
Practice managers need more guidance on implementing the NHS App, according to a recentreporton the app’s pilot project. The pilot, which tested the NHS App across more than 3,000 users in 34 GP practices, ran from September to December 2018. It aimed to‘plan effective support for GP practices as connection to the app rolls out across England’, as well as to‘test and improve’ user experience.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 17, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
' Time for Care' scheme frees up £40m in GP appointment time, reports NHS England
NHS England is extending the Time for Care programme, after reporting that it has saved nearly£40m worth of GP appointment time. First introduced in 2016 as part of theGP Forward View, the three-year programme was designed to encourage GP practices to adopt and share innovative ideas that release time and work.
These include a better use of social prescribing, active signposting and new consultation types, among others.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 16, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
Superpractices looking to take leadership roles on GP networks across England
Two superpractices are offering to take on leadership roles in a number of primary care networks, including providing back-office support and being a'custodian of funds' for the new networks.
Modality Partnership, a super partnership based in Birmingham, wants to lead primary care networks across the country, its chief executive toldHSJ. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 15, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
NHS App pilot had ‘no negative impact’ on practices
The NHS Digital pilot testing the NHS App in GP practices has had‘no negative impact’ on practices, according to a recent report on the findings.
In September 2018, NHS Digital and NHS England began running the pilot project to test patients’ and practices experience of the NHS App.
Thirty-four practices took part in the pilot, which ran from September to December 2018, and reported that over 3,000 users from those practices registered to use the app. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 12, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
10,000-patient practice to hand contract back in crisis town
A 10,000-patient practice is set to hand its contract back in Plymouth, our sister publication Pulse has learned.
GP partners at Mannamead Surgery in Plymouth, which has a patient list size of about 10,000 people, have announced plans to end their contract to provide GP services.
NHS Devon CCG said that the contract will be taken on by a new provider, which it is in discussions with. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 11, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: costanzapearce Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Source Type: news
