Healthcare:
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It may come as a surprise to many patients, but a new study shows that primary care visits have actually gotten a little longer since the late 1990s. (Read More)
BBC:
Shropshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) supports plans to move major vascular surgery from a hospital in Telford to one in Shrewsbury to improve services. (Read More)
From Reuters.com:
Reuters visited the Boston Children’s Hospital Primary Care Center, where H1N1 vaccines are being offered to patients who are at least two years old and healthy.
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BBC News Player | Health:
Christine Braithwaite, from the Care Quality Commission, said out-of-hours GP care needed to be checked more thoroughly by primary care trusts. (Read More)
Healthcare:
Primary care trusts are doing little to tackle the huge variation in the cost and quality of their GP services, the results of a confidential internal NHS survey suggest. (Read More)
Healthcare:
Primary care trusts blame the “weak and clunky” GP contract for slow progress on improving quality in primary care and unacceptable variations in cost. (Read More)
Healthcare:
Variations between primary care trusts in the quality of their GP services and how easily patients can access them remain stark. (Read More)
Twitter / markeaton:
markeaton: #AmnisNews: Choice of male or female GP still unequal: Variations between primary care trusts in the.. http://bit.ly/2wSUk7. (Read More)
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markeaton: #AmnisNews: GP contract: 'clunky’ deal holds back quality: Primary care trusts blame the “weak and c.. http://bit.ly/D3pbM. (Read More)
Twitter / markeaton:
markeaton: #AmnisNews: PCTs neglect value in general practice: Primary care trusts are doing little to tackle t.. http://bit.ly/6EMJP. (Read More)
BBC News Player | Health:
Coventry Primary Care Trust's Mike Attwood says a cervical cancer immunisation programme will be "paused" after the death of a 14-year-old-girl. (Read More)
Lean Healthcare Blog:
Community Services are less prepared for any reduction in funding that many other healthcare organisations. There are also many opportunities to innovate and improve the efficiency within the services. The transformation that (Read More)
BBC:
More than 80% of NHS primary care trusts in England fail to offer the recommended three free cycles of IVF to infertile couples, an MP has claimed. (Read More)