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Primary care news round-up (19th December 2024 to 1st January 2025)

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is clear the system is broken, which is why we are slashing red tape, binning outdated performance targets, and instead freeing doctors up to do their jobs. A survey of doctors found that 99% were alarmed by the impact of increasing winter pressures, and 70% agreed that the NHS is in crisis mode all the year round.

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Primary care news round-up (31st October to 6th November 2024)

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told practices he is “aware” of the problem, but following last week’s budget, ministers said practices or the NHS would have to cover the increase. Alarm at latest tech outage Practices have called for more choice in IT following the latest problems with the EMIS systems. Practices were awarded 4.4%

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

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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 (18th July to 24th July 2024)

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CrowdStrike crisis highlights concerns about IT backups The NHS needs to find an improved way of backing up its IT systems following the havoc caused by the CrowdStrike failure last week, a senior GP has said. The NAO says that the new local integrated care systems have developed partnerships and drawn up plans to prevent ill health.

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Primary care news round-up (13th June to 19th June 2024)

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The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer, Chair of the BMA GP Committee in England, said: “Over 99% of our members who responded – that’s more than 19,000 GPs and GP trainees – rightfully rejected the Government and NHS England’s 2024/25 GP contract changes.

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

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Practices urged to sign up as veteran friendly A drive has been launched to encourage practices to become “veterans friendly”. They say it’s likely this is because the problems resolved following the visit, but warn it could also indicate that a minority are not getting the help they need.

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

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Practices will get support for periods of up to six months. It plans to deploy “experienced and skilled” facilitators to practices and set up group-based learning sessions to ensure experience sharing across practices. It followed the pausing of the GP Sustainability Loan Scheme.