…by 2025 to “transform diagnostic services with at least 100 community diagnostic centres …”. However the first such community diagnostics centre, recently opened in Somerset, turns out to be yet…
…video unless there is a “compelling” clinical reason for in-person appointments. The health secretary said in the four weeks leading up to 12 April – the initial days of the…
…area, but it has not attracted the numbers needed to re-open the ward, which had been pencilled in to open again in April if the recruitment had been a success….
Full story at County Gazette 16 April 2018 INPATIENT wards at Somerset’s community hospitals could begin re-opening as early as June, provided that more nurses can be recruited. The Somerset…
…from hospitals to the community. In order to extend primary care specialities it is proposed that GP practices develop into federations. A transformation of the urgent and emergency care system…
…being criminalised for their mistakes. Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, announced on Monday he was rolling out the appointment of the examiners across the service. The move comes after the…
Full story in GP Online, 16 May 2018 The Sutherland Lodge practice in Chelmsford, Essex, was taken over by the private provider in July 2016 after the previous partners handed…
…disproportionately affect the most deprived areas. It is the poorest communities that are being hit the hardest by these cuts in public health. When the IPPR compared the cuts in…
…come from ‘Commercial capital partnerships & commercial loans’. The STP also notes that £112 million of social care efficiencies have been identified. A plan for a new primary care centre…
…There will be changes to community care, including the development of 23 Local Care Networks (LCNs), which will bring primary, community, specialist teams working in the community, mental health and…