NEWS
Clinical
Leadership
Rick
stern writes in the Health Service Journal on clinical leadership
in out of hours services.
The article can be found here
GP Out of Hours
David
Carson writes in Pulse Magazine in September on GP Out of Hours
Services - How to scrutinise the service your patients get. Link to
article is here
Healthcare Commission:
The
Healthcare Commission has published its review of Urgent and
Emergency Care. Performance is mixed across the country. A
significant number of PCTs GP OOH services are performing below
national standards. The Primary Care Foundation Benchmark will help
address this issue. For more details click here.
The Healthcare Commission document can be found here.
National
Out of Hours Benchmark
The
Foundation has been selected by the Department of Health to develop
and operate a benchmark service for all PCTs.
Stop
Press! The
Health Service Journal has a report in September 2008 on the
benchmark.
The report can be found here
For more information on the Benchmark click here
A set of slides describing in detail the Benchmark with examples of
outputs can be found here
Urgent
Care in General Practice
The
Foundation has commenced work commissioned by the Department of
Health to investigate the current response by General Practice to
Urgent Care and pilot some differing ways of handling these request
by patients.
For more information click here
STOP
PRESS
Does
your practice or do you have a practice in the PCT which has
innovative ideas for responding to Urgent Care Requests?
If you do tell us about it.
Download the response form here
or complete the online response here