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Health secretary Sajid Javid is facing double anger from doctors after threatening new steps to require practices to increase face to face appointments. The Royal College of GPs accused him of failing to tackle a chronic shortage of GPs while the British Medical Association accused him of being “far removed from reality.”The BMA was also…
September 14, 2021, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments
The British government is set to press on with additional COVID-19 vaccination today in spite of experts questioning the benefits of booster campaigns. Yesterday the government decided to offer vaccines to children aged 12 to 15 while today it is expected to announce a booster campaign for over-50s. The Lancet yesterday published an expert review…
September 10, 2021, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments
The government has launched a new consultation on compulsory vaccination for practice staff working in England, it has been announced. It is considering making both COVID and flu vaccination compulsory for all frontline health staff, including those working in the NHS and GP practices. Currently 12% of NHS staff have not had two doses of…
September 9, 2021, by Phil - Practice Index in CQC, GP Practice Management 0 Comments
I wrote a number of CQC-themed blogs during the pandemic; the first focused on the ever-changing CQC environment followed by continuing to sail on the sea of CQC change. Coincidence? Perhaps not, as at the time of writing this blog, the CQC remains in a state of change. The new monitoring approach, piloted in the…
September 9, 2021, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments
Talks are to resume on next year’s practice contracts following a boycott because of the growing row about access in the months following the pandemic. GP leaders are to return to talks with government officials after the three month boycott following a row about “damaging communications.” The British Medical Association suspended relations with NHS England…
September 6, 2021, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments
Practices are facing the cancellation of thousands of flu vaccine appointments as the programme became the latest to be hit by the UK’s logistics crisis. Vaccine company Seqirus has warned deliveries may be delayed by up to two weeks because of “freight challenges.” GP leaders and practice managers reacted in dismay, warning that the delays…
September 2, 2021, by Mat Phillips in GP Practice Management, NHS England 35 Comments
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…
September 16, 2021, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments