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- Accident and Emergency Services: The network of services. // British Medical Journal;10/13/1979, Vol. 2 Issue 6195, p917
Focuses on the accident and emergency centers in Great Britain. Need for adequate number of associated geriatric beds; Provision of adequate general practitioner service; Availability of special services for neurosurgery, thoracic and plastic surgery.
- Close harmony vital in practices to achieve top quality payments. Calver, Gary // Pulse;1/6/2003, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p16
Focuses on the effects of medical practices on the success of quality payments in Great Britain. Identification of the key elements necessary in quality payment systems; Details on the content of the contract developed by the government for general practitioners (GP); Role of GP in identifying...
- GP enhanced service pay is revealed. Kelly, Brian // Pulse;5/5/2003, Vol. 63 Issue 18, p1
Reports on the increase in the pay rates for general practitioners providing enhanced services in Great Britain. Fees for directed enhanced services; Benchmark pricing of the quality information preparation payment to allow physicians to summarize patient notes; Fees for practices treating...
- Deprivation payments. Hobbs, Richard // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);2/27/93, Vol. 306 Issue 6877, p534
Examines the introduction of deprivation payments as mode of payment for medical services. Application of Jarman index; Limitation of payment based on number of patients per general practitioner; Function of deprivation payment.
- Mutual learning between general practitioners with community hospital beds and consultants in Scotland. Greig, Gail // Work Based Learning in Primary Care;Nov2004, Vol. 2 Issue 4, p338
This paper focuses on mutual learning opportunities for general practitioners (GPs) with inpatient beds in community hospitals and their consultant colleagues in secondary or tertiary care, in the context of the Scottish healthcare policy of integration. The nature of the relationship between...
- GPs get �10 a patient to improve diabetes care. // Pulse;5/5/2003, Vol. 63 Issue 18, p7
Reports on the medical fees given to general practitioners for providing diabetes care to patients in Great Britain. Improvement of diabetes services; Difficulties of physicians in financing diabetes care after the national service framework failed to allocate funds for most services;...
- GPs suspect hospitals are 'gaming' Cameron, Ian // Pulse;9/10/2005, Vol. 65 Issue 35, p15
Reports the suspicion of general practitioners in Great Britain that hospitals are deliberately obstructing practice-based commissioning. Driving force behind the practitioners' comments; Claims by practitioners on the prevalence of errors in hospital activity data; Implication of the scheme for...
- Referral cash may distort patient care. // Pulse;4/26/2007, Vol. 67 Issue 16, p3
The article reports that the British government may reduce the quality of its patient care by giving incentives to its general practitioners (GP) to change their referral behavior. Interventions that alter the referral behavior of GPs decreased outpatient activity and quality. Referrals under...
- ARE YOU A PATIENT ACCESS WINNER OR LOSER? Couch, John // Pulse;6/28/2007, Vol. 67 Issue 25, p24
The article focuses on the controversy over general practice payments in Great Britain. The initial system shows that the Department of Health (DH) wants to make the maximization of access income difficult. This is part of the grab money back from general practitioners' campaign of DH. The...
