Health Education England (HEE) has shared a report “for the future of general practice speciality training”, outlining ways to reform the delivery of education to GP trainees to focus on addressing health inequalities, improving technology and enhancing areas of clinical care such as mental health. The report, ‘Training the Future […]
Primary Care News
Special report: primary care cloud telephony
Our latest special report revolves around primary care telephony. Earlier this month, we covered the updates to the GP contract, including a new requirement to mandate the use of cloud-based telephony. “All practices need to be aware, that from the end of 2025, all analogue ISDN and PSTN lines will be […]
GP contract updates focus on access, mandated cloud telephony and prospective record access
NHS England has written to all GP practices, primary care networks and integrated care boards to make changes to the GP contract 2023/24. In the letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, national director primary care and community services at NHS England, the changes focus on offering an assessment of need at […]
Case study: Improving governance across 38 GP practices
Case study by Radar Healthcare BEDOC’s collaboration with Radar Healthcare has resulted in a fully-developed governance solution that encourages incident reporting, in addition to sharing up-to-date insight across multiple GP practices. This case study shares the experiences of Lesley Quinn, Clinical Services and Governance Manager at BEDOC since implementing the system. Lesley […]
Interview: Dr Naveed Iqbal on improving prevention in primary care and building tools to support people with learning disabilities
For our latest interview, we spoke to Dr Naveed Iqbal on his experiences in primary care, his interest in building digital tools for people with learning disabilities, hopes for the future, and more. On his background, role and projects I work as a GP in East Lancashire, I’m on the Royal […]
HTN Now: Dr Minal Bakhai on supporting general practice to transform and create a sustainable future
At HTN Now Digital Primary Care, we focused on the topic of sustainability in the healthcare industry and the role technology can and will play in transforming general practice. We were joined by Dr Minal Bakhai, Director for Primary Care Transformation at NHS England and GP. Minal discussed how we […]
HTN Digital Primary Care: Iatro on creating a highly usable and accessible GP website for patients
At HTN Now Digital Primary Care we were joined by Thomas Porteus, Founder and CEO at Iatro, for a presentation on creating a highly usable and accessible GP website for patients. To begin, Thomas said: “Often what strikes me is how little information practices have about how the websites are […]
Market engagement launches for GP cloud telephony framework
NHS England has launched an information gathering exercise with an aim to establish a new cloud telephony framework. The plans are said to form part of a national strategy to set in place a new framework for general practice and provide a sole procurement route for primary care. A prior information […]
HTN Digital Primary Care: Dr Osman Bhatti on patient access to online GP records
At HTN Now: Digital Primary Care, we welcomed Dr Osman Bhatti, GP and Chief Clinical Information Officer at North-East London ICB. Osman joined us to discuss the debate around patient access to online GP records, with focus on what is happening, how practices should prepare, and how his own ICB […]
Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care in 2023?
To kick off our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems for 2023, we shared a poll with our audience of health tech professionals to gather their opinions on where the main priorities should lay for digital primary care this year. 106 people have voted since we posted our poll […]
