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£10 charge to visit your GP

An influential think-tank who have advised the Government on many prior initiatives stated that patients should be charged £10 for every GP visit as a way of cutting costs to within the NHS. By charging patients a fee of £10 per vi...

Date: 25/01/2012

Doctor, Nurse and GP Jobs: Odd Questions Asked During an Interview

As a way of continually improving what we do, Alexander James Health Care collects feedback from all candidates they put forward for a position. This feedback helps us tailor our approach to the needs of the employers as well as the candidate. Eve...

Date: 10/01/2012

What are Primary Care Trusts?

Primary Care Trusts employ and pay the salaries of GPs and dentists, buy in drugs, 'commission' hospital appointments, purchase drugs and operations on behalf of the medical professionals. They are split into organised NHS units that m...

Date: 04/01/2012

Out of hours GP Care Mystery

In a White Paper Andrew Lansley promises to improve access to out-of-hours GP care - but it is vague on how this will be achieved. While it promises to develop a 'coherent 24/7 urgent care service', it fails to stipulate how extensive...

Date: 04/01/2012

Revolution: GPs to control surgery budgets

A revolution within the Health Service will put billions of pounds of taxpayers' money into the hands of GPs was unveiled by government ministers yesterday. Andrew Lansley the UK Health Secretary promised the largest upheaval since the for...

Date: 04/01/2012

Patients greater power to choose their GP

The Health Secretary Mr Lansley has promised an 'information revolution' in the NHS - with patients being given all the facts they need to decide on a hospital. They will be given far greater powers to choose their GP, and even which ...

Date: 04/01/2012

Measured on survival rates rather than targets

MINISTERS are to press ahead with the scrapping of a range of targets in favour of a focus on improving health outcomes. So, for example, rather than penalising hospitals for not treating a patient within 18 weeks - Labour's target; they ...

Date: 04/01/2012