Health Care Leader News

MAY 11, 2021

Ruth Rankine, director of primary care at the NHS Confederation, discusses the key priorities for the sector as the country moves into the next phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have been talking to primary care leaders about their challenges and what they need to deliver services safely and sustainably.

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Health Care Leader News

JULY 15, 2020

This month marks not only the 72 nd birthday of the NHS but also the one-year anniversary of primary care networks (PCNs), which were established last July to stabilise general practice, dissolve the historic divide between primary and community healthcare, and provide a broader range of services for patients closer to their own homes.

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Health Care Leader News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Fuller Report published earlier this year signalled that Primary Care Networks (PCNs) should ‘evolve’ into Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs). What should PCNs and general practice be doing now to prepare for this change? Here are four actions to consider. Here are four actions to consider. This is a critical step.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

And the maldistribution of physicians — with far too few pursuing primary care or working in rural areas — is arguably an even bigger problem. Moreover, the AMA’s own Workforce Explorer tool suggests that NPs are playing a vital role in expanding access to care. Recently, Derek Thompson pointed out in the Atlantic that the U.S.

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Health Care Leader News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Fuller Report published earlier this year signalled that Primary Care Networks (PCNs) should ‘evolve’ into Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs). What should PCNs and general practice be doing now to prepare for this change? Here are four actions to consider. Here are four actions to consider. This is a critical step.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

OCTOBER 11, 2023

My own research shows that there are system-wide effects and that the impact of capitation for primary care physicians on services may depend on whether specialists are also reimbursed via fee-for-service. However, it is not clear how increasing the proportion of reimbursement that is capitated impacts health care service provision.

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Health Care Leader News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. 34% used telehealth for preventive care.

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Over the past decade we have seen more and more specialization and levels of care introduced. We now have telehealth visits, retail clinics, direct-primary-care, and more. Issues with Transitional Care When a poor transition happens, patients suffer. More fragmentation = more transitions. More transitions = more issues.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

Overview of general practitioners in the UK Under the English National Health Service (NHS) program, …patients register with a single general practice that acts as the gatekeeper to most other NHS services, including non-emergency hospital care. There is a small patient charge (£8.80

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Health Care Leader News

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dr Hilary Fox, clinical director of Rutland Health Primary Care Network (PCN) and member of the NHS Confederation’s PCN clinical director reference group, discusses the challenges of delivering the Covid vaccination programme. Delivery within the financial framework will be essential to maintain routine primary care.

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