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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

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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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Care.data project tarnished by liberties and assumptions

Jonathan Hammond By Jonathan Hammond Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: February 21, 2014

The potential for Care.data to improve the health of the nation is hard to argue with, writes Jonathan Hammond. But he argues that a lack of patient control, security concerns and a lamentable communications strategy have tarnished the laudable aims of the whole scheme. Let’s start with some facts about Care.data. It is a programme […]

Tagged With: care.data, GPs, health policy, healthcare, NHS England, patient data, patient database, patient trust, primary care, public health

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Reality check-up: Care.data is good for our health

David Springate By David Springate Filed Under: Science and Technology Posted: February 20, 2014

Amid the furore over the delayed Care.data scheme, the reality is that the storage of pseudoanonymised patient data is already common practice, writes Dr David Springate. He argues that a national primary care database will bring big benefits – and says the risk of individuals’ data being de-anonymised by big pharma companies or criminals is remote. […]

Tagged With: care.data, NHS, patient data, patient database, patient trust, primary care, public health

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