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Primary care news round-up (17th to 23rd April 2025)

Practice Index

In-person consultations contribute to patient satisfaction Reductions in face-to-face appointments have contributed to a collapse in public satisfaction with GP services. The post Primary care news round-up (17th to 23rd April 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Primary care news round-up (29th August to 5th September 2024)

Practice Index

Over the 14 years that led up to 2019, the number of appointments per patient remained much the same, but the length of time per consultation increased by nearly half. GP appointments reaching “tipping point” Practice list sizes have ballooned in the last decade while GP numbers have fallen.

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Primary care news round-up (27th June to 3rd July 2024)

Practice Index

Doctors worry about safety because of inadequate appointment times In a survey for the Royal College of GPs, most GPs feel they don’t have enough time to undertake adequate assessment and treatment of patients, and report excessive workloads. Practice appointments “exceed ambitions” Practices delivered nearly 30.5

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Primary care news round-up (16th to 22nd February 2024)

Practice Index

Dispute over growing appointment numbers GP and NHS leaders have clashed over another upsurge in appointment requests. NHS England says the nearly 26 million appointments in December demonstrate progress in improving primary care, while the Royal College of GPs says it shows that pressure on practices is becoming even more intolerable.

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Primary care news round-up (7th to 13th March 2024)

Practice Index

Record appointments “unsustainable”? NHS England reports that practices delivered a record number of appointments last year. million appointments – that’s 20% more than the previous month. There were 360 million appointments over 12 months, which is 53 million more than in 2019. In January, practices provided 32.5

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Is There an Easy-Button for AI In Healthcare Team Well-Being? Exploring a New PC with Embedded AI

Health Populi

“The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust,” Dr. Eric Topol wrote in his 2019 book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019. Hackers had access to the system between April 2019 and January 2020. In 2022 and 2024, OCR resolved 22 HIPAA violation cases with financial penalties.

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