Michael Dixon’s Conference Speech
Opening Speech Welcome, friends and comrades, to this fifteenth NHS Alliance Conference. The conference of primary care for primary care by primary care. I am so pleased to see you all here! Today,...
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Dame Barbara Hakin speaks on the NHS Commissioning Board, the NHS Mandate, and integrated care.
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“The coming year will be crucial for general practice…”
It has been a fascinating week in the NHS, with ongoing media coverage over the Francis Report and renewed calls for the resignation of the head of the NHS Commissioning Board, David Nicholson from the...
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Too Posh to Prescribe? Too Learned to Listen?
I can’t resist this headline in a week when the press have reported a quadrupling in GP vacancy rates in the last two years, and then that the Oxbridge Universities are producing c. 12% of graduates as...
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Ministers listen to feedback!
I thought this week I would start with a good news story – and indeed it sounds a bit like a “man bites dog” line but its true – Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem health minister, announced this week that the...
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Bleak House
Today general practice received some of the news about the contract it was expecting; a 1.32% increase in baseline funding, which is 0.2% less than that originally offered in October last year. Details...
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Building NHS assets with communities
“We need systems that support and develop asset-based community developments emphasising the strength of a community working together to solve its problems” The NHS Alliance offer great insight into...
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Open all hours?
Another fascinating week in the life of the NHS has passed, with several headlines of note. First of all, the Section 75 regulations were passed by a thumping majority in the Lords by the Coalition;...
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Let’s blame it on the GPs
Please forgive me a week’s break but the sun was shining, the grass growing and the garden distracting me, but now we’re back to wind and rain let’s see what’s happening in the NHS. Numerous stories...
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Community pharmacy and sexual health
I often talk about the obvious – about joining up the dots – about commissioning within community assets – about putting ‘community’ back into community pharmacy and blank faces look back at me. And...
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Commissioning Community Pharmacy
It is time for the NHS to act differently towards Community Pharmacy and start to tie things up properly. The recent changes in the NHS has, in my opinion, made things worse and we need to see some...
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