Sentences with phrase «primary care trusts»

My work also covers contractual and regulatory issues for primary care trusts when dealing with primary care practitioners.

R (on the application of London Borough of Ealing) v Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts [2013] EWHC 3255 (Admin)(2014) 135 BMLR 128 Judicial review challenge to the reconfiguration of North West London hospitals, with Clive Sheldon QC

She then worked as a manager in an NHS Primary Care Trust in Hampshire and a visiting lecturer at the College of Law in Guildford before returning to practice.

R (on the application of London Borough of Ealing) v Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts [2013] EWHC 3255 (Admin)(2014) 135 BMLR 128 Judicial review challenge to the reconfiguration of North West London hospitals

The Claim was brought against (1) Dr. Daniel Ubani, (2) Take Care Now Ltd «Out of Hours» Service and (3) Cambridgeshire NHS Primary Care Trust who was responsible for checking the competence of all of their GPs including Locum GPs together with providing appropriate training.

GPs now commission services instead of working in partnerships with Primary Care Trusts, which are being eliminated up and down the country.

Our local Primary Care Trust operates a clinic for young people which «provides a wide range of information and advice on issues regarding sexual health such as; fertility, unplanned pregnancy and contraception.

First, primary care trusts who currently commission care have struggled to control expenditure on hospital care.

The government's NHS reforms include an administrative overhaul, scrapping primary care trusts and handing over commissioning power to GP consortia.

Though Mr Sinnatt had prepared to face a public law defence relying upon the case of Barnet Primary Care Trust v X [2006] EWHC 787 (QB) 6 March 2006 no such defence was in fact put forward.

The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley will publish details today on how the Government intends to manage the process by which GPs will begin to take over the commissioning of patient care from primary care trusts (PCTs).

Emmanuel v City & Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust and Secretary of State for Health [2011] EqLR 1291 Junior Counsel for Secretary of State — equal pay — NHS nurses — national test case — genuine material factor defence (market forces) made out.

The advice comes as primary care trusts prepare for a new system in September where parents of primary school children receive letters detailing their child's weight and whether it is higher or lower than normal.

The government's controversial health and social care bill, which has been accused of being an attempt to «privatise» the NHS, would replace primary care trusts with consortia of local GPs who would be in charge of purchasing healthcare for their patients.

Rather than abolish primary care trusts (PCTs), Andrew Lansley could have replaced their boards with GPs.

Increasing pressure on primary care trusts (PCTs) to recover from budget deficits is hitting sexual health services, a new report has revealed.

In what is emerging as another embarrassing expose of government handling of sensitive data, the Sunday Mirror has reported that one of the security breaches involves the loss of details regarding 160,000 children by City and Hackney Primary Care Trust (PCT) after a computer disc failed to arrive at its east London destination.

The Infant Feeding Profiles 2010 to 2011 report shows the correlation at Primary Care Trust level between higher rates of breastfeeding prevalence and lower rates of inpatient admissions among infants under one year old for the following ten conditions:

The Department of Health (DoH) has published advice to primary care trusts urging them not to describe children as obese or tell them to do «exercise».

Speaking at a conference hosted by the Local Government Network, Mr Denham said: «Local taxpayers should be vigilant if they are asked to accept reduced services because their council won't take tough decisions to introduce shared services, sharing senior staff with other local authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildings.

Sixty per cent of primary care trusts failed to meet their targets of offering all people with diabetes the chance to be screened for retinopathy, while 762,673 people with diabetes over the age of 12 didn't receive retinal screening in the year ending March 2008.

The inquiry, commissioned last year by the government, has pointed to «stunning inequities» citing figures from the Department of Health which show one primary care trust spent # 186 per death while another spent # 6,213.

MRSA Action UK will be presenting at the workshops with teams from Liverpool Primary Care Trust, who have commissioned the Improvement Foundation programme, lending opportunities to discuss patient empowerment and engagement.

Analysing the impact of the last reconfiguration of commissioning on performance, Civitas worries that it took three years for merged Primary Care Trusts to achieve levels of performance comparable with the pre-merger period.

Last year, I sent Freedom of Information requests to 445 health organisations comprising Primary Care Trusts, Foundation Trusts, Acute Trusts and so on, enquiring as to whether they screen foreign patients for auditing purposes.

Using local information, it will estimate how many patients GPs should be treating, allowing Primary Care Trusts to launch campaigns to bring people into surgeries.

The government will also encourage primary care trusts and hospices to work together to develop specialist services in the community.

Woolas, accusing Watkins of «Daily Mail populism», asked whether, under Watkins» NHS, devolving power would mean 450 different primary care trusts using 450 different kinds of IT systems.

Planning skills and management quality within primary care trusts (PCTs) are «depressing,» a committee of MPs has said.

She is a public health consultant, former director of public health research at Liverpool university and chair of Rochdale primary care trust.

This report seeks to compare the practices of Primary Care Trusts against the guidelines for IVF provision laid down by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.

there was a six-fold variation between the geographical areas — in this case the areas covered by the former primary care trusts (PCT)-- with the highest and lowest prescribing levels.

In the healthcare sector we have a proven track - record of working in partnership with clinical commissioning groups (and their predecessor primary care trusts), health boards, local authorities, the emergency services, and private healthcare providers.

The Individual Cases Policy of the West Sussex Primary Care Trust pertaining to funding of treatments not routinely commissioned, is unlawful, because it effectively requires a patient to show not that his case is unusual, but that it is unique.

Ms Tapere was employed by Lewisham Primary Care Trust, based at Burgess Park in Camberwell.

Sadly, the Court of Appeal has just demonstrated that it can not tell which is which, in the case of Medway Primary Care Trust v Marcus [2011] EWCA Civ 750, [2011] All ER (D) 219 (Jun).

For it had fallen to the Court of Appeal on 6 August 2008 to determine a «who pays for care» dispute between St Helen's Borough Council (the council) and the Manchester Primary Care Trust (PCT).

It will also help public services secure support for a future integration strategy and will be particularly useful to London boroughs, local authorities and Primary Care Trusts in areas with a high proportion of Black Africans.»

The first is R (on the application of Malik) v Waltham Forest NHS Primary Care Trust (Secretary of State for Health, interested party)

For example, Dr Meldrum said that while practice - based commissioning (PBC) «might be fine in principle», its implementation was being blocked by a «crude, inflexible» system of payment by results and a lack of cooperation with primary care trusts (PCTs).

Initially, the government wanted to scrap primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, set up the NHS commissioning board, public health England and the new monitor at the national level, and GP commissioning consortia and health and wellbeing boards at the local level.

That's according to study conducted by the University of Birmingham School of Health and Population Sciences for the Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust.

He'd have seen the Strategic Health Authority re-cast; hospitals merge into common trusts, Primary Care Groups redrawn as Primary Care Trusts and then redrawn again as bigger PCTs; Mental Health Trusts amalgamate (Oxfordshire's was paired off with Bucks»), and Ambulance Trusts fold into each other.

The reforms would replace primary care trusts (PCTs) with GPs» consortia and make it easier for private forms to compete in the NHS.

Greater pressure on primary care trusts to increases their responsiveness to local communities is also expected.