Practice Index

JULY 4, 2024

Access to general practice has been a hot topic recently, with political parties vying to promise more appointments and enhanced GP availability. As Practice Managers, we need precise appointment data tailored to our practice, relying on our own figures rather than generic estimates. There’s no shortcut here.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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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Northwest Career College

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Appointment scheduling is one of the main tasks that needs to be done effectively to organize the overall day-to-day operation. Appointment Scheduling in the Healthcare Field Good scheduling is so much more than maintaining the organization of the day. Record and track appointment histories quickly.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. public health, as well.

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Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

Telemedicine is useful for the following services in addition to enabling long-distance contacts: Care Advice Reminders Education Intervention Monitoring Even confessions made remotely. Reminders for medication Sadly, statistics show that only 50% of chronic disease medication regimens are followed by patients.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden. At only nine weeks gestation I had not seen my OB physician yet, but I was able to follow up in the office to talk about my next steps.

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Mobius MD

MARCH 26, 2025

While convenient for patients, many providers struggle to keep up with a high volume of electronic messages. Delegate when possible: Involve other team members in triaging electronic messages. How Providers Can Help: Proactive outreach: Set up automated reminders or request staff follow-ups to reconnect with patients.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

ChatGPT has become a global phenomenon, with over 1 million sign-ups to try the chatbot post-launch. Unlike other notable chatbots such as Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa, which are used to interact with the physical world and perform an action, ChatGPT helps to speed up office work. Let’s dive in.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

We have a simulation operating room, a delivery room, emergency medicine room, and different patient triage areas where they can learn. And so those students that decide to follow that path are really focused on learning about that particular population segment. So we want to do it in a safe environment. They have to do a lot.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enhanced Patient Care Patients can get annoyed by long waiting hours and freeing up time for appointments. It increases patient engagement as they actively participate in scheduling appointments online, tracking their health, getting prescription refills, and eliminating transportation costs.

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Mobius MD

MAY 1, 2024

Medical assistants (MAs) can also help prepare visit materials and handle follow-up tasks. You can create standardized prep sheets for common conditions to empower MAs to anticipate and arrange required tasks, facilitating smoother appointments. For example, set up protocols for when your MA can take over for you.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

During my career, I have had the opportunity to learn the details about how to set up a state-of-the-art call center telephony system and how to rapidly transition to a functional remote poison center model with our staff distributed across three states and the District of Columbia in response to the pandemic.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The degree to which the legislation has made a positive impact is up for debate. Using telehealth appointments for chronic conditions, follow-up visits, and other non-urgent care can reduce unnecessary hospital visits, which in turn ensures triage and earlier treatment of the seriously ill.

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Practice Index

JUNE 27, 2024

The call has come from the Royal College of GPs following a consultation which involved 5,000 doctors. The college says it now wants to draw up new and detailed guidance on induction, supervision and scope of practice. He added: “If one part of the NHS crumbles, the rest will follow.

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Practice Index

MARCH 7, 2024

It follows the imposition of the new GP contract with a funding increase of just 1.9%. Same day appointment hubs plan shelved A controversial plan for “same day” hubs, which would triage patients seeking practice appointments, has been shelved due to GP concerns. million it has received to improve access to appointments.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve tried to stay away from the reflections that end up being part of the “doctor-as-patient” genre. [i] My daughter got out ahead of me and, as we approached the end of our ride, I remember thinking, “these damn kids, you teach them to ride a bicycle, and then they turn 18 and you can’t keep up with them.”

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