Wouldn’t it be great if you could evaluate the financial performance of your practice in an instant? Well, now you can! Benchmarking Manager provides an in-depth analysis of your practice’s financial performance. In just a couple of clicks, you can: View total figures and averages per weighted patient Compare current financial performance against previous years…

A troubled urban hospital group has been alarmed by growing pressure for practices to leave the clinical commissioning group that provides its patients. The Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is waiting for a new hospital located on the borders of Birmingham – but in the meantime runs hospitals across two boroughs in the West…

Are you prepared for your CQC inspection? If you aren’t, then do not worry; you soon will be! This Masterclass focuses on the five key questions the CQC asks about services: Are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led? Six exceptional modules of ammunition, enabling you to feel fully prepared for your…

An anonymous practice manager – using personal experiences of working for both sides – shares their views on the culture gap that exists between practices and CCGs, and why surgeries will struggle to get the support they need until that gap is bridged. I’d been managing GP practices for well over a decade before I…

The controversial panels that vet GP referrals are set to be implemented nationwide, it has been revealed. NHS England claims the process is a “peer review” scheme. Increasing numbers of clinical commissioning groups have set up referral panels in spite of opposition from many local doctors. In some cases private companies have been contracted to…

New data gives an insight into how Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are performing with regard to delivering talking therapies. The figures, from NHS England’s mental health ‘dashboard’*, highlight the proportion of CCGs meeting and missing their targets when it comes to increasing access to talking therapies. The latest data show that nearly 6 in 10…