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Is primary healthcare a hostile environment? The barriers facing asylum seekers and refugees accessing general practitioners in the UK

By Louise Tomkow and Rebecca Farrington Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted: February 18, 2019

Dr Louise Tomkow is a Geriatric Registrar in the Northwest deanery and a PhD researcher exploring migration and health at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, The University of Manchester. Dr Rebecca Farrington is a General Practitioner working with asylum seekers and refugees and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at The University of Manchester. In their blog they highlight how: […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Good Health and Well-Being, #SDG No Poverty, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, asylum, asylum seekers, general practice, GP, HCRI, Health & Social Care, Health inequalities, immigration, inequalities, poverty, primary care, refugee

Introducing non-GP health professionals into general practice teams: what needs to be considered?

By Pauline Nelson and Damian Hodgson Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: February 1, 2018

Financial pressures and changing service demands are driving a diversification of staffing in general practice (GP). One policy response has been the drive towards increasing levels of ‘non-GP’ staff in local practices. Here, Dr Pauline Nelson and Professor Damian Hodgson of Alliance Manchester Business School survey the current situation, direction of travel, and the steps […]

Tagged With: AMBS, care quality, employment, general practice, Health & Social Care, labour market, NHS, productivity, workforce

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Can performance pay in primary care reduce mortality?

By Evangelos Kontopantelis Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: March 31, 2015

Government policy assumed that incentives for general practice through performance-related-pay would improve mortality rates and other outcomes. Its scheme for doing this appears not to have worked as intended, explains Evangelos Kontopantelis. Primary care has enormous potential for improving population health outcomes – including mortality from common chronic conditions – through early intervention in the […]

Tagged With: diabetes, general practice, Health and Social Care Information Centre, incentives, mortality rates, NHS, Office for National Statistics, performance pay, primary care, QOF, Quality and Outcomes Framework

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