Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Harmoni, Out-of-hours, Take Care Now |
Healthcare Republic | Susie Sell | 18 February 2010 Private out-of-hours provider Take Care Now is set to be taken over by larger private firm Harmoni, after heads of agreement have been signed between the two companies. David Cocks, chief executive of TCN, suggested the future of the company is ‘best placed with a larger [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
GPs on the front-line are much better placed than PCTs to monitor out-of-hours care, argues Dr Charles Alessi. But Dr Ravi Mene disagrees, warning that if GPs take back out-of-hours it is bound to be underfunded. Change is inevitable, growth is intentional… without doubt, the NHS is coming to terms with the fact that change [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 5 February 2010 The Government is to introduce a national model contract and tougher minimum standards for PCTs to use when procuring out of hours services, in order to create tighter controls on GPs providing out-of-hours care. The announcement – which will also create more robust skills and knowledge testing [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 3 February 2010 Exclusive: Patients have been placed at risk of ‘significant harm’ by a series of failings in an out-of-hours system spearheaded by NHS Direct, a confidential report leaked to Pulse warns. An investigation into West Yorkshire Urgent Care Service, by the doctor who drew up the Government’s national [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 27 January 2010 A leading defence body has warned that complaints against GPs related to out-of-hours consultations are growing in number, with a 50% increase seen in the past two years. The Medical Defence Union said it had been notified of 517 complaints related to out-of-hours consultations by GP members [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 22 January 2010 PCTs and out-of-hours providers who fall short of national benchmarking standards are to be named and shamed under new plans to drive up standards of care. The Primary Care Foundation is planning to publish names of trusts and out-of-hours providers, and patient feedback, as part of the [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Steve Nowottny | 19 January 2010 GPC chair Dr Laurence Buckman has issued a robust response to mounting criticism over out-of-hours care, warning that giving back personal responsibility for its delivery to GPs would be ‘dangerous to patients.’ An inquest into the death of a patient given a fatal overdose by German locum [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Healthcare Republic | Prisca Middlemiss | 15 January 2010 Patients from practices not offering extended hours will be able to book evening and weekend appointments at neighbouring practices from April. Alternatively they will be allowed to book routine appointments with their local out-of-hours service. The two new schemes spearhead health ministers’ drive to increase the population [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 14 January 2010 The Government is to allow practices offering extended hours to take over the evening and weekend care of patients from neighbouring GPs who refuse to provide the service. In a major new drive to give all patients the right to evening and weekend appointments, the Department of [...]
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Posted on January 11, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Lilian Anekwe | 11 January 2010 The number of patients attending hospital for minor ailments and non-emergencies has leapt by a third since GPs opted out of out-of-hours responsibility, a new study suggests. But the number of patients presenting with traumatic conditions has remained the same since the 2004 opt-out, found the [...]
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Posted on December 30, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases | Tags: Out-of-hours |
GPs over festive season | accessed December 2009 GP out of hours services Frendoc and Brisdoc are the out of hours GP services that operate from 6.30pm- 8am Monday-Friday, all weekends and bank holidays. This service is provided by GPs and nurses who can offer telephone advice, face-to-face consultations, or home visits for patients who [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 5 November 2009 The Government is considering introducing a ‘daytime out of hours’ system to get round obstacles to abolishing GP practice boundaries, the health minister has revealed. Speaking at the RCGP conference in Glasgow, Mike O’Brien said it may be possible for GPs to relinquish responsibility for daytime home [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Harmoni, Out-of-hours, Thamesdoc |
Healthcare Republic | By Neil Durham | 21 October 2009 An out-of-hours provider looking after more than a tenth of England’s population has merged with a GP co-operative. Harmoni is commissioned by over 20 NHS PCTs to provide services for six million people including out-of-hours, GP-led health centres and urgent care centres. It merges with [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Wellbeing Newsline | 19 October 2009 Edited by Nick Adams: Local residents in West London should benefit from easier access to GPs and emergency medical care since a new 24–hour health centre opened at Charing Cross Hospital recently. The Fulham Centre for Health works alongside the emergency department to provide urgent care for people with minor [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2009. Filed under: Journals, Providers | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Health Service Journal | 2 October 2009 A Care Quality Commission report has urged healthcare managers to review the quality of their out of hours services over fears that some private GP companies do not meet basic standards. The CQC recommendation follows the death of 70-year-old David Gray last February, who was accidentally killed by a German [...]
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