What you need to know as practice managers NHSE have released “Our plan for improving access for patients and supporting general practice”, so what do we need to know as practice managers? This financial year, general practice has provided more appointments than in the equivalent period before the pandemic. There is also an acknowledgement that…

The new National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 were released quietly and without a fanfare back in April 2021. So much so, I wasn’t even aware of them until a few weeks ago when I thought I should start updating the Infection Prevention and Control Policy and its sister document, the Cleaning Standards and Schedule Policy. Additionally, there’s been…

I am a proud veteran of the Royal Navy and so last week, on Trafalgar Day, I was glad to receive information about a new NHS initiative that supports armed forces families. This new NHS England and NHS Improvements initiative is to look at how families of serving personnel, reservists and veterans access NHS services…

To assist with the changes to the Primary Care Network (PCN) DES, new updated guidance documentation has been published on Practice Index and can be accessed here. While the guidance document goes into more detail, the changes that have been made by NHS England are summarised in their explanatory note dated 19th March 2020, shown…

The integration of health and social care has been the goal of many successive governments – and it’s to see why. The desire to achieve service improvement, a holistic approach, better use of resources and meeting the needs of a changing demographic are compelling reasons for tying together care delivery. Despite the fact that integration…

Some £15 million is to put towards a programme to improve recruitment of practice nurses, it has been announced. NHS England promised that its programme would also provide support for existing practice nurses. This includes an expansion in leadership and career opportunities, it promised, together with induction programmes, training and mentoring for nurses joining general…

Up to 7,000 hours of practice staff time has been released through a project in one Lancashire borough, it has been claimed. Some 25 practices in Bury have taken part in the Productive General Practice project, backed by NHS England. The local clinical commissioning group says it has put in place more efficient processes, reduced…