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How will ICSs steer change in general practice?

Health Care Leader News

General practice can expect to have dealings with the ICS. This prompts two important questions, firstly how will systems approach change in general practice? And secondly, what does it mean for general practice teams? And secondly, what does it mean for general practice teams?

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How will ICSs steer change in general practice?

Health Care Leader News

General practice can expect to have dealings with the ICS. This prompts two important questions, firstly how will systems approach change in general practice? And secondly, what does it mean for general practice teams? And secondly, what does it mean for general practice teams?

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UK aims to offer patients genetics-based medication counseling

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Videha Sharma, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, explains the NHS’s plan to expand pharmacogenetics, or how people’s genetic codes influence the effects of drugs, beyond specialist care to general practice.

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Four actions to prepare for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams

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What should PCNs and general practice be doing now to prepare for this change? While it is important to build relationships within an Integrated Care System (ICS), the starting point for general practice and PCNs is to consider who will build these relationships and how they will do it. Here are four actions to consider.

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Managing changes in primary care as an ICB

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The current pressures on the NHS are well documented, and in South East London ICB we’re very similar to the rest of the country in that we are seeing real pressure in general practice. Communicating changes to the public For example, you wouldn’t traditionally see a paramedic at your GP practice.

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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

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According to a new AMA Policy Research Perspectives report videoconferencing is a favored means of patient consults for significant numbers of dermatology practices (87.3%), urologists (87.2%), pediatricians (82.9%) and cardiologists (82%). These differing specialties are also using telehealth in different ways.

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PCN money and fair distribution

Health Care Leader News

There is an unspoken rule in general practice, particularly within PCNs, that any distribution of resources needs to be equitable. And by fair, we mean even across practices. But is this rule working against rather than for general practice? This is all much easier to say than do.