Practice Index

APRIL 24, 2025

Patient need for GP care and services continues to outstrip resources following years of neglect and underfunding by successive governments. New warnings about staff fatigue Fatigue contributes directly and indirectly to patient harm, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body reports, following a major investigation into the problem.

Huddles/Rounds

Minority Nurse

JULY 4, 2025

Some new nurses even feel set up to fail by their preceptors, and I’ve spoken with several who were let go after a very negative precepting experience. While nurses are busy and have much to do, helping a new graduate comfortably ramp up to full speed is in everyone’s interest. Stoking the flames is a lifelong process.

Precepting

Practice Index

APRIL 10, 2025

Change of rules creates 1,500 GP jobs More than 1,500 GPs have found jobs following changes to practice funding rules over the last year. In a briefing earlier this week, it advised practices not to sign up and warned of a continued expectation for general practice to deliver a range of complex services without proper commissioning.

Huddles/Rounds

Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The following list is not exhaustive, but it provides a place to begin when taking a good, hard look at your situation. Are there grand rounds and other ways to learn? It All Comes Down to You In the final analysis, whether you stay or go is up to you. So, how do you decide? What about your job contributes to your growth?

Teamwork

Practice Index

JULY 10, 2025

Not a true story (as we know that would break confidentiality) but a made-up one largely based on real-life experiences in HR. The situation is very uncomfortable, but they can’t see any way round it now. She keeps a record of everything she does and writes up a report using the Practice Index investigation report template [PLUS].

Patient Records

Practice Builders

APRIL 11, 2025

Incorrect diagnoses, surgical errors, and medication mix-ups often result from delayed or unclear communication. Practice the following: Standardized protocols, such as SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) for concise team briefings. Multidisciplinary rounds in which all members of the care team contribute.

Communication

Practice Index

JULY 3, 2025

Shake-up welcomed for practice IT The IT market for practices in England is facing its first “shake-up” for 25 years. The Department of Health said the technology would be “pioneering” and will analyse data and reports from a range of sources to flag up problems.

Huddles/Rounds

Minority Nurse

JULY 21, 2025

Often on foot or horseback, she did case investigations, collected sputum samples, educated the community about the disease, and provided follow-up care to those diagnosed with TB. She was the only Board of Health nurse on the island and served approximately 5,000 people. Wilcox quickly saw the need for a TB Hospital on Kauai.

Hospital

The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

The problem is that the last round in 2021 was at a $6bn+ ZIRP era valuation with Tiger & Coatue paying the idiot price because Teladoc was trading at $15bn market cap then (albeit down from $30bn a year before that!). In other words it was a level above me following along to an exercise on Youtube. Then my knee slowly got worse.

Billing

Practice Index

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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%

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

JANUARY 23, 2025

The decision followed the intervention of a local Member of the Scottish Parliament, Fergus Ewing, who has spent three years objecting to the changes. The post Primary care news round-up (16th January to 23rd January 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

MARCH 20, 2025

It followed the settlement of the GP contract dispute and a promise of 889 million extra in core general practice funding. The post Primary care news round-up (13th to 19th March 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The investment follows pressure from the BMA. NHS England says more than five million women are not up to date with their testing. The post Primary care news round-up (28th November to 4th December 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The Scottish Government promised an extra £13.6

Huddles/Rounds

Minority Nurse

JULY 25, 2025

Hawaii’s four most prominent ethnic groups listed in that year’s census (in round numbers) were Japanese – 61,000, Native Hawaiians – 38,000, Caucasians – 29,000, and Chinese – 26,000. Over the following decades, Lieutenant Commander Koher’s career took the family to Japan, Taiwan, and Washington, DC.

Follow-Up

Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

MARCH 14, 2024

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.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

JULY 25, 2024

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.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

MAY 16, 2024

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.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. Royal College of GPs Chair, Professor Kamila Hawthorne, said: “As always, the devil will be in the detail and it is essential that these plans are backed up by sufficient funding for primary and community care.”

Huddles/Rounds

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“The NP workforce is in a constant state of growth to keep up with the rising demands of the healthcare system,” says Paula Tucker, DNP, FNP-BC, ENP-C, FAANP Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University. ” she says.

Follow-Up

Accepted Blog

AUGUST 28, 2024

Follow your medical school’s guidelines, and submit them as early as possible so you have time to incorporate any feedback. Once Applicant A gets matched to a program on their list (let’s say their second choice), they are removed from consideration for all programs lower on their list, which opens those spots up for other applicants.

Admissions

Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 12, 2025

What Investors Look for in Early and Late-Stage Funding Rounds and How Regulatory Compliance Impacts Valuation For early-stage life sciences and health tech companies, raising capital is about more than demonstrating scientific promise. Unstructured financing rounds leading to cap table mismanagement.

Huddles/Rounds

Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I want to understand the needs of different nursing populations and bring a well-rounded global perspective to meeting the needs of our nurses and caregivers. Being a healthcare leader means listening closely to understand the intricacies of a challenge, thinking up out-of-the-box solutions, and asking for the expert advice of colleagues.

Follow-Up

Minority Nurse

MARCH 15, 2023

March is National Kidney Month and Minority Nurse caught up with nephrology nurse Nancy Colobong Smith, MN, ARNP, ANP-BC, CNN to find out what it’s like to be a nurse in this specialty. Following my passion and having the support of mentors in finding my way was invaluable.

Certification

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So I went from learning how to give a bed bath and make a hospital bed to serving as the executive director at this hospital and in a neighborhood close to where I grew up – it warms my heart. He rounds on the units daily and is very visible to staff. Anthony Hospital). What inspired you to become a nurse? It’s a huge responsibility.

Unit Organization and Environment

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bart covered many other ideas, but in the interest of attention spans for blog-reading, let me round out my takeaways with Bart’s policy recommendations summarized in these seven principles. For health care in the U.S. For health care in the U.S. Open Source as a True North underpins the recommendations overall.

Follow-Up

Northwest Suburban College

JANUARY 25, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore the essential role that Dental Assistants, Medical Assistants, and Pharmacy Technicians play in improving patient education by providing clear, concise, and tailored information regarding healthcare procedures, medications, and self-care practices.

Patient Education

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

” Oxford Dictionary provides context for the definition as follows: To work, as in especially hard physical work. Halle took time with me to answer a few questions about Natalist for the Health Populi blog. I actually bought the domain “Baby Someday” on Feb 22, 2016, right after my first round of IVF.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

How AI can democratize and enchant health care – the WHO perspective In January 2024 I explored the World Health Organization’s report on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health in my Health Populi blog. That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter.

Unit Organization and Environment

Minority Nurse

JUNE 20, 2024

Building an Application Putting together a well-rounded professional application is crucial for a new graduate. Your first application packet will set you up for life and help you land a role with the salary, benefits, and responsibilities you’re looking for.

Huddles/Rounds

Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Some programs are very clear about not wanting anything but the primary and secondary applications, and you should always follow their instructions. There are always applicants who get later interviews, however, so don’t give up hope. Did your experiences and meaningful experiences reflect a well-rounded candidate?

Admissions

Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) The Impact of Education on Nursing Practice report, the number of nurses with a BSN is growing, and positive results follow. Most hospitals and health departments prefer and only hire BS/BSN nurses,” says Bray.

Scheduling

Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Share valuable articles and health tips with patients via a blog or social media. Athenahealth found patients without a no-show have an attrition rate less than 19% compared to a single no-show which goes up to 70%. Sometimes questions come up later. Follow the care continuum and assess what happens. What frustrated you?

Patient Experience

Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Let’s start with some really easy questions: your background, where you grew up, and how on earth you got interested in admissions from biomedical engineering. [2:39] And basically I grew up in that city, that little small town in northwest Louisiana and now apparently the home district to our current speaker of the house.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Part of what you do when you sign up for medicine is like you didn’t sign up to sit in the classroom. You signed up to go in the hospital and see patients. A lot of them talk about where they grew up or who influenced them during their careers. They’re way up there. with a median science GPA of 3.9.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

So our students will select patients that they follow throughout the year in a longitudinal fashion. And so if you’re seeing a patient in clinic and they get hospitalized, you might then go round on them in the inpatient hospital. Their curricula might be set up in a way that someone with experience is more successful versus not.

Admissions