The vast majority of GP practices offer online services to their patients. This meets the General Medical Services (GMS), Personal Medical Services (PMS) and Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) regulations from 2015/16 and beyond. These services include: booking and cancelling of appointments ordering of repeat prescriptions viewing of detailed information in their GP record, held […]
The benefit of online interaction between patients and their general practices continues to grow as over a quarter of the patient population are now registered to use GP online services. Further evidence has been gathered from across the country, including from the GP online services accelerator sites and the key benefits identified to date include: Reduced […]
Alistair Burns, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, teams up with two GP colleagues, Maggie Keeble and Nick Cartmell, to give their views on improving care – including GP-led diagnosis – in care homes: I recently co-wrote a blog with Dan Harwood and Paul Twomey entitled “Don’t let care home residents slip through the […]
Patients using mental health and community health services are able to give feedback on their experiences of care and treatment from today (Thursday, 1 January, 2015). This comes as the Friends and Family Test (FFT), a real time patient feedback tool that is already operating for some hospital services such as maternity and A&E, continues […]
As of September 2014, 21% of patients in England have been able to access their medical records online, a significant increase on 2% this time last year. The number of patients able to book their appointments and request repeat prescriptions has also jumped to 91% and 88% respectively. NHS England’s Patient Online programme team has […]
Seven new ‘ambassadors’ are to begin spreading the word about the importance of diagnosing more patients with dementia in a bid to help improve patients’ and their carers’ quality of life. The seven, who are based in London, the south, the north, the midlands, and Scotland, will be helping local GPs in England to use […]
Dolly Sud, a pharmacist in the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, discusses the impetus for creating the database and some of the challenges she faced: Dr Martin McShane’s recent blog pointed out that it is crucial for mental health to be valued on a par with physical health. It is one of the key challenges facing the […]
NHS leaders in London have announced the first step in a radical transformation of GP services in London. General Practice – A Call to Action, which is published today (Thursday 28 November 2013), was produced in partnership with some of London’s leading doctors. The aspiration is to transform GP services so they are more convenient, […]
Patients are set to benefit from changes to the GP contract which will reduce bureaucracy and free GPs to deliver personalised care. The changes will ensure that the most vulnerable patients receive personalised care. This will mean more patients can be looked after in the community and will reduce emergency admissions. GPs will be freed […]
Hundreds of thousands more people a month will have the option to refer themselves for key services such as help with incontinence, podiatry, or hearing tests without needing to see a GP, as part of the NHS primary care access recovery plan. Around 180,000 more people a month will be able to self-refer for additional […]