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Best Practice | 9-10 October 2019
Hempsons attended the Best Practice show on the 9th and 10th October 2019.
Newsflash: New NHS Pension consultation launched (and previous 50:50 consultation withdrawn)
A new consultation NHS Pension Scheme: pension flexibility has just been published. This is to address the significant concerns raised by GPs and other clinicians
Newsflash: NHS England publishes PCN Development Support Prospectus
NHS England has published a Primary Care Network (PCN) Development Support Prospectus. Aimed at Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), the Prospectus is in two parts. Read more here..
Primary Care Networks: Who are you trusting to receive the DES payments on your behalf?
Primary Care Networks: Who are you trusting to receive the DES payments on your behalf?
Primary Care Networks: Who are you contracting with?
Primary Care Networks: Who are you contracting with? Do you know? The Agreement is a legal contract and in order to ensure that it is legally binding on all the PCN member practices, you need to ensure that those practices are correctly and accurately identified as parties to it.
Have you got your Primary Care Network Agreement ready?
The GP primary care team at Hempsons have been considering The Mandatory Network Agreement recently published by NHS England. It contains little detail, leaving much to be elaborated in the schedules.
The role of Federations and GP provider organisations going forward
It's been reported in Pulse that GP federations will not count as primary care networks 'in most cases’ and that “Practices will have just a couple of months to join new primary care networks if they are to qualify for a significant amount of funding being invested in the organisations by NHS England" - all part of the new five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement The NHS Long Term Plan.
GMS Contract Negotiations 2018/19 – what you need to know
GMS Contract Negotiations 2018/19 - what you need to know The outcome of the latest round of the GMS Contract negotiations for 2018/19 between NHS Employers and the General Practitioners Committee was published by NHS England recently (Gateway Reference 07813).
Newsflash: Making Sense of Integrated Care
“Our aim is to use the next several years to make the biggest national move to integrated care of any major western country” (NHS England, 2017)
Healthcare newsbrief: Summer edition now available
Welcome to this latest edition of Hempsons’ healthcare newsbrief. Healthcare policy is always a challenging area to write about and this year the election, with its uncertain result, has made it even more so.