This is one of the main types of contract that PCOs can have with primary care providers. It is a nationally negotiated contract that sets out the core range of services provided by family doctors (GPs) and their staff and a national tariff. It remains the most common way for primary care services to be provided in most areas. See APMS, PCTMS, PMS, and SPMS.
These are practising GPs with a special expertise in respiratory medicine whose role often includes in service development as well as clinical care. In respiratory care there are, as yet, very few and the roles vary. See here.
Related Words Practitioner with Special Interests (PwSI)
The DH requires every PCT in England to develop a GP led Health Centre in response to concerns expressed nationally about difficulty in accessing primary care (now enshrined as The Equitable Access to Primary Medical Care programme (EAPMC). It is also partly a policy agenda to increase competition into primary care by opening up the market to new players. For this reason the contract for the GP Led Health Centre has to be let in a specific way, according to a national timetable. The contracts should be let by April 2009. At September 18 2008, all PCTs had met Milestone 3 (advertised and short-listed bidders), and 1/3 have issued invitations to tender (ITTs) to short listed bidders (milestone 4: 31 October).
The DH requires every PCT in England to develop a GP led Health Centre in response to concerns expressed nationally about difficulty in accessing primary care (now enshrined as The Equitable Access to Primary Medical Care programme (EAPMC).
It is also partly a policy agenda to increase competition into primary care by opening up the market to new players. For this reason the contract for the GP Led Health Centre has to be let in a specific way, according to a national timetable. The contracts should be let by April 2009. At September 18 2008, all PCTs had met Milestone 3 (advertised and short-listed bidders), and 1/3 have issued invitations to tender (ITTs) to short listed bidders (milestone 4: 31 October).
Inpatient activity can be grouped and reported at 3 different levels: High Level: Point of Delivery, e.g. Day Case, Elective or Non Elective Medium Level: Specialty, e.g. General Surgery, General Medicine Low Level: Healthcare Resource Group (HRG - see below), e.g. D22, D39
Inpatient activity can be grouped and reported at 3 different levels:
The last printed version (please note the online version is more up to date) of the IMPRESS NHS Jargon Buster (pdf) is available to download here
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