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

Practice Index

Patient need for GP care and services continues to outstrip resources following years of neglect and underfunding by successive governments. GPs and our teams are now delivering more appointments than ever before 367 million last year, more than a million per day but with just a handful of more qualified GPs than in 2019.

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Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

Health Populi

elections, Jennifer’s assertion sums up what, ex post facto , we know about what most inspired American voters at the polls in November 2024: the economy, economics, inflation, the costs of daily living… pick your noun, but it’s all about those Benjamins right now for mainstream American consumers across many demographic cuts.

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

Practice Index

According to the IGPM, the Department of Health should follow suit. 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. The proposal comes after the Government decision to end one-word Ofsted gradings for schools.

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

Practice Index

Practices urged to sign up as veteran friendly A drive has been launched to encourage practices to become “veterans friendly”. There were 360 million appointments over 12 months, which is 53 million more than in 2019. The post Primary care news round-up (7th to 13th March 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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

Practice Index

The practice serves 16,000 people and the latest project followed their installation of new phone systems. It follows the decision to enable pharmacies to advise patients on treatments for sinusitis, sore throat, earache, infected insect bites, impetigo, shingles and uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

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Primary care news round-up (9th May to 15th May 2024)

Practice Index

The long-delayed changes to premises rules were first agreed in 2019 and there is now, finally, guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care on the new rules. Practices will get support for periods of up to six months. It followed the pausing of the GP Sustainability Loan Scheme.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

OCR stepped up enforcement of compliance with the HIPAA Rules in 2016, more than doubling the number of financial penalties imposed. The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR.

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