Polyclinics
Wansworth PCT Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Posted on December 23, 2009. Filed under: Federations, Polyclinics, Reports/papers |
Wandsworth PCT | accessed 23 December 2009 [pdf]
Par. 2. Primary care, polyclinics and polysystems. A major focus for the work of Wandsworth Primary Care Trust over the past two years has been the development of plans for primary care. In line with the NHS strategy document Healthcare for London, these plans have concentrated on the development of polyclinics, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Blackpool gets ‘Darzi’ style PACS
Posted on December 7, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Agfa, Walk in centre |
E-Health Europe | NHS Blackpool | 7 December 2009
NHS Blackpool has implemented a new Agfa PACS system that enable staff working at the town’s state of the art new polyclinic to access and share diagnostic image records with staff at the local hospital trust.
Implemented as an extension of Blackpool, Flyde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation [...]
LMCs to investigate career route to suit salaried GPs
Posted on December 3, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics, Providers | Tags: Hurley Group, Tesco-Metro style |
Healthcare Republic | GP Newspaper | By Tom Ireland | 3 December 2009
Londonwide LMCs is developing a model of ‘intermediate partnership’ to help salaried or sessional GPs.
The emergence of federated practices and polyclinics in the capital requires new models of GP partnership, said Londonwide LMCs joint chief executive, Dr Michelle Drage. ‘The current model of [...]
A public consultation has been launched to examine plans to close the A&E at King George Hospital
Posted on December 1, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics |
Guardian – Series | James Ranger | 1 December 2009
MEMBERS of the public can now have their say about plans to radically alter the face of healthcare in the borough.
Health for north east London launched its 14-week public consultation into proposals to close the accident and emergency (A&E) service at King George Hospital in Ilford, [...]
Build a virtual polyclinic
Posted on November 30, 2009. Filed under: Journals, Polyclinics |
Health Service Journal | BY MARK CAULFIELD | 30 November 2009
Streamlined care cannot be delivered unless clinicians are able to share information easily. Mark Caulfield describes how Tower Hamlets solved the problem with integrated IT.
As the repository for vital patient information, IT systems are at the heart of rethinking services in the post-Darzi era.
It is [...]
New investment in Harrow’s health service
Posted on November 26, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics |
Labour Matters | Harrow Labour | 26 November 2009
In the past 12 months three new polyclinics have started work in Harrow.
The Urgent Care Centre at Northwick Park was the first and is open every day from 8am to 11pm at night. The Alexandra Avenue Polyclinic opened in June and is open to anyone to drop [...]
Construction of borough’s first polyclinic gets started
Posted on November 19, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics |
Yellow Advertiser | By Suzi Muston | NHS Havering | 19 November 2009
UPMINSTER MP Angela Watkinson was guest of honour at the ground breaking of NHS Havering’s first polyclinic on Friday.
The £4million clinic, which is scheduled to open in March 2010, will house a number of health services including a minor injuries unit, X-ray and [...]
Professor warns of ‘corporatisation’ of UK primary care
Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Healthcare Republic | By Colin Cooper | 11 November 2009
An international expert on primary care has warned that UK general practice is in danger of following its US counterpart in to ‘intensive care’.
Professor Gordon Moore, who received the President’s International Medal at the conference, said the tradition of general practice here was admirable compared to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NHS Redbridge is asking residents for their views on a proposed ‘polysystem’ for Wanstead and Woodford
Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Poly-system |
Guardian – Redbridge News | By James Ranger | 3 November 2009
RESIDENTS across Wanstead and Woodford will be able to give their views on how they receive their healthcare in the future.
NHS Redbridge will be asking for opinions on polyclinics across the borough, following the recent opening of the Loxford Polyclinic.
The clinics, which offer a [...]
Four new polyclinics planned for Redbridge
Posted on October 30, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Poly-system |
Yellow Advertiser | By Peter Henn | NHS Redbridge | 29 October 2009
REDBRIDGE will be the first borough in the country to implement a radical change in the way people receive their healthcare.
NHS Redbridge, which provides GP services to residents in the borough, is set to follow up on the success of Loxford Polyclinic, in [...]
Closing A&E just doesn’t add up
Posted on October 29, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Poly-system |
Ilford Recorder | 29 October 2009
THERE are worrying inconsistencies in the information from NHS Redbridge and Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (BHR) in proposing the closure of King George’s A&E.
Heather O’Meara, for example, from NHS Redbridge, claims that 200 people from Redbridge in an eight-week period used the Loxford polyclinic for urgent treatment [...]
Heart Of Hounslow Is A Big Hit, Local Residents Give Polyclinic Thumbs up
Posted on October 28, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics, Providers | Tags: The Practice |
The Gov Monitor | Source: NHS Hounslow | 28 October 2009
The Heart of Hounslow has been a big hit with local residents in its first six months as a polyclinic.
Over 11,000 people have used the walk-in service (known as The Practice Heart of Hounslow, open 8am to 8pm every day of the year) and over [...]
Fylde super clinic opens
Posted on October 28, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics |
Blackpool Gazette Fleetwood | NHS North Lancashire | 28 October 2009
FLEETWOOD’S new health super-centre has officially opened.
The Same Day Health Centre provides care for patients with minor injuries and illnesses.
It is now open from 8am until 10pm every day.
The health centre is temporarily based at the Pharos Street side of Fleetwood Hospital but a new [...]
A picture of health as GPs take the ‘polysystem’ lead
Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Poly-system |
Public Service | NHS Redbridge | 26 October 2009
Clinicians will increasingly call the shots about how and where money is spent in the local health economy, says Conor Burke, borough managing director for NHS Redbridge primary care trust
NHS Redbridge (NHSR) is moving ahead with a phased handover of its commissioning function that could eventually see [...]
‘Deaf trust’ forgets about consultation
Posted on October 22, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics |
Ilford Recorder | NHS Redbridge | 22 October 2009
YET again, the Primary Care Trust has let us down. Two weeks ago Conor Burke, borough managing director of NHS Redbridge, came to our Area committee four meeting to discuss proposals for polyclinics.
He advised us the primary care trust would only go ahead after consultation with residents.
He [...]
PCT faces High Court over contract award
Posted on October 22, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Care UK, Privatisation, UnitedHealth |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 21 October 2009
A PCT is facing a High Court battle over its decision to award a GP-led health centre to private firm Care UK.
Residents have begun legal action against NHS Camden over an alleged lack of consultation on the centre.
Legal firm Leigh Day and Co has issued an application for [...]
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