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PERSONALISATION OF
CARE IN HYPERTENSION
CONFESSIONS
OF A TIRED GP
WHAT I LEARNED WHEN
MY PRACTICE FAILED
Are you up to date with the latest NICE and
British Hypertension Society guidance?
Fed up and burnt out.
Sound familiar?
Dr Holly Hardy reflects on a life-changing
decision to resign her GMS contract
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By Dr Chris Arden
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Taskforce
recommends
faster GP referral
for earlier cancer
diagnosis
GPs are already
doing a very
good job of
appropriately
referring our
patients
who we suspect
of having cancer,
considering the
relative rarity of
presentations
The ambition is that by 2020, 95
percent of patients referred for
testing by a GP will be definitively
diagnosed with cancer, or cancer
is ruled out, and that patients will
get this result within four weeks.
This will require a significant
increase in diagnostic capacity,
giving GPs direct access to key
investigative tests, and the testing
of new models which could reduce
the burden and reliance on GPs.
HOW TO AVOID
THE GOVERNANCE
PITFALLS THAT
CAN TRIP UP NEW
FEDERATIONS
As GP practices federate, often
forming small companies, they will
need a high performing board to
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Dr Holly Hardy
BEST PRACTICE
2015 SPEAKERS AND
PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
Patients should be given a guarantee of a cancer diagnosis within four weeks
as part of a new cancer strategy for England, a report has recommended
The Independent Cancer Taskforce sets out six priorities
covering better prevention, swifter diagnosis and better
treatment, care and aftercare for all cancer patients which
it says in the next five years could result in 30,000 additional
patients surviving cancer.
Issue 9 • September 2015
The NAPC’s Annual Conference
Simon Stevens
Chief Executive
NHS England
The Rt Hon. Jeremy Hunt
Secretary of State
for Health
Dr Nav Chana
Chair
NAPC
Dr Gail Collins
Medical Director
Consultant Paediatrician
Dr Nadine Kale
Senior GP,
Royal Primary Care
Sir Sam Everington
National Lead - Primary
Care-Driven Care Models
Professor Steve Field
ChiefInsp.ofGeneralPractice,
Care Quality Commission
Heike Burnett
Practice Manager,
East Grinstead
Currently, patients urgently referred for suspected
cancer by their GP need to be seen by a specialist within
14 days of referral, but no guidance exists for when
patients can expect to get the results.
The report says that the NHS needs a significant
increase in diagnostic capacity and calls on NHS
England to make it mandatory for all GPs to have direct
access to investigations, including MRI and CT scans, by
the end of this year.
It also says that the new NICE guidelines for
suspected cancer, which have lowered the threshold
for GP referrals, should be tested out in two or three
vanguard sites, to iron out any problems with their
implementation.
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provide leadership and direction to
the new organisation.
GPs can find themselves becoming
novice directors but nothing in their
medical training will have taught
them anything about the implications
of a being a company director or the
principles of good governance.
There are many pitfalls that
can trip up the unwary, Justin
Cumberlege, a partner and head
of the healthcare team at Carter
Lemon Camerons, will tell Best
Practice delegates.
Pitfalls can include:
•
The statutory stumbling blocks
include things like making sure
you file any changes to the
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