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CCGs already improving patient care

July 23, 2012
Sales and Marketing CCGs, Commissioning Board, GPs, NHS, NHSCC, reforms

Clinical Commissioning Groups – the new structures set up under the Health and Social Care Act to control most of …

DH admits cancer awareness campaigns failed

June 28, 2012
Sales and Marketing Cancer, Department of Health, GPs, government

The government’s £9 million cancer awareness campaigns were built upon failed pilots, according to newly released data. The national awareness …

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Patients urged to rate GPs

June 8, 2012
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing DH, England, GPs, Lord Howe, NHS

The government is cranking up its information strategy with the publication of new data on 8,000 GP surgeries in England. …

UK doctors vote to strike

May 30, 2012
Medical Communications BMA, GPs, NHS, UK government, doctors, strike

Doctors will take industrial action for the first time in almost 40 years, the British Medical Association has confirmed.  The …

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Government sets out new information strategy for NHS

May 22, 2012
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing GPs, Lansley, NHS, digital, government, reforms

The Department of Health has outlined its plan for greater use of information technology in the NHS in a bid …

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GPs to ‘prescribe’ apps for patients

February 22, 2012
Medical Communications GPs, Lansley, NHS, apps

Family doctors in England could soon be asked to ‘prescribe’ apps to patients to help them manage their medical conditions. …

NHS reforms criticised by healthcare journals

January 31, 2012
Sales and Marketing BMJ, GPs, Lansley, NHS reforms, nursing times

A trio of leading healthcare journals has come out against the government’s NHS reforms. The British Medical Journal is leading …

PCTs increasingly ‘red list’ drugs to cut costs

May 12, 2011
Sales and Marketing GP prescribing deicisions, GPs, PCTs, prescribing

GPs are being asked not to prescribe NICE-approved drugs in order to cut costs. In the last year more than …

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GPs asked to squeeze drugs bill

April 14, 2011
Sales and Marketing AZ, GPs, NHS, NICE, prescribing

GPs are being asked not to prescribe NICE-approved drugs in order to cut costs.In the last year more than half …

50,000 NHS jobs to be cut

February 24, 2011
False Economy, GPs, NHS, NHS reforms, TUC, nurses

NHS trusts are preparing to make a major series of job cuts as the health service wrestles with the need …

Prime Minister uses online network to rally doctors around reforms

January 27, 2011
Sales and Marketing Doctors.net.uk, GPs, commissioning, david cameron, docotrs, prime minister

 Prime Minister David Cameron has made exclusive use of Doctors.net.uk, the UK’s largest network of medical professionals, to reinforce his …

GPs urged to curb spending on prescriptions

August 6, 2010
GPs, NHS, NICE, NPC, prescriptions

GPs are being encouraged to reduce spending on prescriptions by following NICE’s cost-effectiveness guidelines. A new National Prescribing Centre (NPC) …

1.6 Million Hours of Learning Delivered to UK Doctors

August 5, 2010
Medical Communications BMA, GMC, GPs, Lansley, NHS, doctors, ecme, edetail, elearing

Figures from Doctors.net.uk reveal a record number of doctors are turning to online learning to support their continuing professional development. …

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