NHS pursuing foreign GPs with £100m recruitment drive
…a contract notice posted by NHS England said, with between 2-3,000 doctors anticipated to come from overseas. It comes as part of a drive to increase the number of family…
…a contract notice posted by NHS England said, with between 2-3,000 doctors anticipated to come from overseas. It comes as part of a drive to increase the number of family…
The National Audit Office’s key findings in this report are as follows: Rising demand for services, combined with restricted or reduced funding, is putting pressure on the capacity of local…
…little is known about the process of developing the plans and how the initiative has worked in practice. Based on a series of interviews with senior NHS and local government…
…ensure that they have clear policies and practice in place for patients with serious mental illness, who require intensive community treatment and follow-up but where engagement is a challenge.” NHS…
…easier for the government to control NHS spending and make cuts to services. The reorganisation reverses previous moves in the NHS to focus on local decision making via clinical commissioning…
…7,150 GP practices. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is warning that waiting times for consultations will lengthen and the care patients receive will suffer unless NHS England agrees…
…and hospital bosses have all voiced unease about the practice, which has risen sharply in recent weeks as the NHS has struggled to cope with the extra pressures of winter….
…to share ideas and good practice, and for much greater collaboration between health services and schools. However, commenting on the report, the Royal College of Nursing noted children’s services were…
Full story at HSJ 18 April 2018 Commissioners in north London have awarded an extended primary care services contract to a private provider over the GP federation that was already…
…year, when 69% of the training roles were filled. Despite this increase, general practice has the second highest percentage of positions vacant, after psychiatry. Full story in Pulse 31 March…