News stories
Health bosses hit back at Norwich walk-in centre claims
Posted on December 22, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Walk in centre |
Norwich Evening News | Sarah Hall | 22 December 2009
Health bosses have hit back at claims that the new walk-in centre in Norwich city centre has not met expectations.
As reported in the Evening News on Saturday, concerns have been raised that the Timber Hill Health Centre is not seeing as many patients as the walk [...]
Health matters: The privatisation of health care in Britain
Posted on December 22, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: PFI, Privatisation |
FRFI 211 October / November 2009 | accessed 22 December 2009
Health care for London
‘The days of the district general hospital seeking to provide all services to a high enough standard are over’, said Sir Ara Darzi, responsible for the ten-year plan for reorganising health provision inLondon. Commissioned by Gordon Brown in 2007 and promoted to a [...]
Take Care Now loses second out-of-hours contract
Posted on December 21, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Harmoni, Out-of-hours, Take Care Now |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 21 December 2009
An private out-of-hours provider which came under fire over the death of a patient under the care of one of its foreign locum GPs has lost its second contract in a matter of weeks.
NHS Suffolk has announced it will not renew its contract with Take Care Now – [...]
Concerns over new health centre
Posted on December 19, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Walk in centre, Nurse-led |
Norwich Evening News | By Sarah Hall | 19 December 2009
Concerns are being raised that the city’s new GP-led centre is not meeting patient expectations, with the number of people who use it falling despite winter being a time when demand on health services would normally rise.
New figures reveal the much-touted Timber Hill Health Centre [...]
Redbridge: polyclinic strategy mapped out
Posted on December 19, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Poly-system |
Ilford Recorder | NHS Redbridge | 19 December 2009
FOUR polyclinics at the heart of future healthcare in Redbridge could be developed in the next four years.
NHS Redbridge says it is pleased with the impact Loxford Polyclinic has had since it opened in April and has released details of the remaining four super surgeries, which it [...]
Competition panel rules in GPs’ favour in branch surgery battle
Posted on December 18, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers, Uncategorized | Tags: APMS, AT Medical |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | NHS Kingston | 18 December 2009
The Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP) has ruled in favour of a local GP practice after concluding that a PCT’s decision to prevent them from expanding their practice nearby was ‘inconsistent’ with competition rules.
The panel ruled that NHS Kingston’s decision to deny Churchill Medical Centre [...]
NHS Herefordshire launches new walk-in GP centre
Posted on December 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: ASDA, Primecare, Walk in centre |
Hereford Times | NHS Herefordshire | 17 December 2009
PEOPLE feeling under the weather can now walk into a new health centre without an appointment to see a GP or nurse in Hereford.
NHS Herefordshire launched the new service, available seven days a week between 8am and 8pm, next to the ASDA store on Monday.
“When we consulted the [...]
Social enterprise ‘costs’ PCT £600,000
Posted on December 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | 17 December 2009
Plans by a Surrey PCT to hive off NHS services into a social enterprise could cost almost £600,000, according to Unite/CPHVA.
It believes the sum, £4 a head for Kingston’s population, could be better spent on services, such as speech and language therapists, health visitors, physiotherapists and community [...]
Changes in service delivery
Posted on December 15, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Walk in centre |
NHS Networks | Networks Talk | Walk-in services | accessed 15 December 2009
Philip Shaba (7 Nov 09)
I hope i am commenting in the right column as I am new to the net work. I am a Nurse Practitioner currently working in that capacity in a Walk-in-Centre. Since we opened our doors to the public, we [...]
GP-led Health Centre: The Facts
Posted on December 15, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics |
James Plaskitt MP | accessed 15 December 2009
Many articles have appeared in the local and national press recently which appear to suggest that the government is trying to replace GP surgeries with ‘polyclinics’. We are not. The record needs to be put straight, so let me be unequivical:
1. Local communities can choose whether they want these [...]
NHS walk-in centres Christmas opening times
Posted on December 14, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Walk in centre |
Chronicle Live | By Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle | 14 December 2009
HEALTH Reporter Helen Rae takes a look at festive season opening hours for walk-in health centres across the North East.
MEMBERS of the public are being reminded they can access walk-in centres and minor injury units throughout the region during the festive season.
No appointments are [...]
Walk-in centres near stations ‘unpopular and expensive’
Posted on December 14, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Walk in centre |
Healthcare Republic | Sanjay Tanday | 14 December 2009
Walk-in centres near train stations are not popular with commuters and expensive to run, according to a DoH-funded pilot study.
Six walk-in centres, run by independent providers, were set up between 2005 and 2007 to provide health care to commuters.
The average number of patients attending each centre on [...]
NHS starts consultation on East Harrow polyclinic plans
Posted on December 14, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics |
This is local London | By Jack Royston | NHS Harrow | 14 December 2009
RESIDENTS are being asked their views on the future of “below average” GP services in East Harrow.
NHS Harrow, formerly Harrow PCT, is consulting on plans to turn Belmont Health Centre, in Kenton Lane, into a polyclinic, meaning it will open from [...]
Start date for £6.5m health centre
Posted on December 13, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, News stories |
Express and Star | Sandwell PCT | 13 December 2009
Work on a £6.5 million health centre in the Black Country will begin next month, the Express & Star can reveal.
The new Glebefields Neighbourhood Health Centre in Tipton is set to transform an area once occupied by notorious council flats.
The building in St Marks Road will [...]
Darzi centres approached to vaccinate children against swine flu
Posted on December 11, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 11 December 2009
NHS managers have begun approaching private providers in a bid for vaccination of under-fives against swine flu to be carried out in Darzi centres.
The move came after the Department of Health told PCTs to consider employing alternative providers after the collapse of talks with the GPC over [...]
BMA rejects Tory ‘GP-led rationing’
Posted on December 10, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning, Conservative |
Healthcare Republic | GP newspaper | By Richard Staines | 10 December 2009
As the BMA launches its general election manifesto, Richard Staines looks at the political battle lines being drawn.
The BMA is on a collision course with the Conservatives over plans to hand GPs control of NHS commissioning.
The Conservatives, favourites to win the next general election, [...]
Wanstead and Woodford lined up for new super-surgeries
Posted on December 9, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Super surgery |
Guardian Series | By James Ranger | 9 December 2009
AFTER months of speculation, health bosses have finally revealed a choice of two sites where they want to put Wanstead and Woodford’s first super-surgery.
The sites identified for the polyclinic, where most GPs will be expected to move, are at the existing South Woodford Health Centre on [...]
Focus on… becoming a provider
Posted on December 8, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Provider-commissioner, World Class Commissioning |
Pulse | Practical Commissioning | 8 December 2009
Michelle Webster and Beverley Slater of the Improvement Foundation set the context for those looking to provide their own services
Providing health services to patients within a small business model is what GP practices do all the time. So becoming a provider may seem a natural progression for enterprising [...]
How our passion for innovation has made us a quality care provider
Posted on December 7, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Horizon Health Choices Ltd, Provider-commissioner |
Pulse | Practical Commissioning | Focus on…..Becoming a provider | 7 December 2009
John Rooke, chief executive of Horizon Health Choices, explains how this GP-owned private provider company has developed innovative ways to offer patient care.
When the Department of Health launched practice-based commissioning in March 2005, GPs in the 26 practices in North Bedfordshire were particularly [...]
Creating an NHS family of shareholders
Posted on December 7, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise | Tags: Privatisation, Provider-commissioner |
Pulse | Practical Commissioning | Focus on…..Becoming a provider | 7 December 2009
A GP-owned private company is coming into its stride with provision and has just secured a £30m urgent care contract with two other providers. Vale Health’s commercial director John Butler explains
When the Department of Health launched practice-based commissioning in March 2005, the 21 GP [...]
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