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  • Referral management : lessons for success.

    Créateur:
    Imison, Candace, The King's Fund, and Naylor, Chris
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    General practitioners make over 9 million referrals each year, triggering many billions of pounds of expenditure. There is also significant variation in the quality and rate of referral between GPs and GP practices. As the NHS faces a prospective funding gap of £14-£20 billion and GPs take the lead for ...

  • The quality of GP diagnosis and referral.

    Créateur:
    Imison, Candace, The King's Fund, Naylor, Chris, and Foot, Catherine
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    This paper was commissioned by The King’s Fund to inform the panel of the Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England. The views expressed are those of the authors and not of the panel. and General practice plays a central role in ensuring patients receive a timely and accurate diagnosis, either directly from a GP or from an appropriate specialist as a consequence of a GP referral. Failure, or delay, in correctly identifying and referring patients who need secondary care can have profound clinical consequences. ...

  • Commissioning for the future : learning from a simulation of the health system in 2013/14.

    Créateur:
    Imison, Candace, The King's Fund, Curry, Natasha, and McShane, Martin
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    Abstract:
    The reforms set out in the coalition government’s White Paper have wide ramifications, particularly for GPs. NHS Lincolnshire decided to help GPs to understand the issues and behaviours that might emerge as a result of the reforms by running a simulation exercise with This report offers observations about individual and ...