Dec 20, 2024 · Last summer, Mr Streeting said GP practices would be given incentives to offer patients continuity of care, indicating that poorer performing practices would receive less money. And at the start of this year, Labour promised to remove ‘burdensome’ bureaucracy from GPs, but asked for better continuity of care in return. NHS England …

Dec 13, 2024 · The move of hundreds of GP practice IT systems from EMIS to Vision has been put on hold due to upstream financial problems. IT provider Cegedim announced that its British subsidiary In Practice Systems Limited (INPS), a software publisher, decided to ‘voluntarily’ place itself under administration on Tuesday this week.. The software publisher was the suppler of Vision, a clinical IT system ...

Nov 21, 2024 · NHS England has revealed more details about the ‘red tape challenge’ launched by the Government to ‘cut down’ on bureaucracy, in a bid to free up GPs’ time.

Dec 4, 2024 · Updated data on NHS staff vaccine uptake is expected later this month but public health officials recently warned that only 24% of NHS workers had received a flu vaccine and 14% had had a Covid vaccine.. GPs have a slightly higher uptake than other healthcare professionals, but it was still only 42% for flu and 23.6% for Covid.

Dec 31, 2024 · As 2024 draws to a close, Pulse looks at the big issues in general practice this year, such as Labour's 10-year plan, the shift from 'hospital to community', and the focus on neighbourhoods

Oct 7, 2024 · They had pledged to remove ‘burdensome’ bureaucracy that is ‘grinding GPs down’, in return for continuity of care noting that GPs were experienced doctors yet made ‘to do millions of tick box appointments’. But plans for patients to bypass the GP and access some tests for suspected cancer were already being considered under the previous Government.

Aug 11, 2023 · NHS England has said that there is ‘an opportunity for longer-term reform’ of the GP contract from 2025/26, including reforms around QOF. Yesterday Pulse exclusively revealed that NHS England is ‘not in a position’ to negotiate to a new five-year GP contract due a lack of funding commitment, with the 2024/25 contract set to be a ‘stepping stone’.

Dec 27, 2024 · There have been murmurs of stepping up the action to industrial – essentially breaching contracts/potentially shutting doors. The BMA threatened an escalation over the safe practice guidance of physician associates in October. Over 40% of practices are limiting appointments – one of the 10 options from the ‘menu of actions’. Both Scottish and English GP leaders voted on measures to ...

Oct 3, 2024 · Increases to the reimbursable amounts for ARRS staff are in line with the 5.5% Agenda for Change pay increases announced earlier this year, NHS England has confirmed.. However, networks will need to find the money for these uplifts within their existing 2024/25 budgets, it added.

Oviva’s Tier 3 Weight Management programme, accredited by the NHS, provides a personalised healthcare plan for individuals.1 Led by expert healthcare professionals, the holistic programme supports patients in making safe, sustainable lifestyle changes for effective weight management, combined with approved medication. 1 Patients can be referred by GPs from anywhere in England under the ...