Primary care networks

NHS England has introduced new targets for the number of online consultations practices should conduct from October and incentives for swtiching patients from MDI inhalers, as part of an expanded Investment and Impact Fund, the incentive scheme for PCNs.

NHS England has introduced new targets for the number of online consultations practices should conduct from October, as part of a significantly expanded incentive scheme for PCNs.

NHS England has announced that PCN service requirements will be gradually phased in over the next 18 months – with just two beginning from October this year – while an additional £43m has been provided to support PCN management.

NHS England has announced that PCN service requirements will be gradually phased in over the next 18 months – with just two beginning from October this year – while an additional £43m has been provided to support PCN management.

PCN clinical directors are facing burnout and struggling to develop their networks – with nine in 10 reporting higher-than-expected workload and concerns that ‘additional roles’ staff brought in to support practices have yet to reduce workload.

PCN clinical directors are facing burnout and struggling to develop their networks – with nine in 10 reporting higher-than-expected workload and concerns that ‘additional roles’ staff brought in to support practices have yet to reduce workload.

Primary care networks in London are being forced to recruit fewer staff or to ask member practices to top up funding because of a flawed pay weighting scheme, GP leaders have warned.

Primary care networks in London are being forced to recruit fewer staff or to ask member practices to top up funding because of a flawed pay weighting scheme, GP leaders have warned.

Primary care networks in London are being forced to recruit fewer staff or to ask member practices to top up funding because of a flawed pay weighting scheme, GP leaders have warned.

Doctors’ leaders have urged the government to exempt GP practices and PCNs from VAT – warning that under current rules funding is being stripped away from frontline patient care.

General practice in England could miss out on tens of millions of pounds in funding with some primary care networks (PCN) expecting to underspend on recruitment by up to a fifth, GPonline has learned.

GPs have voted for the BMA to continue to represent the profession in talks with NHS England over the future of the multi-billion pound primary care network (PCN) programme.

LMCs have demanded a ballot of GPs on the primary care network (PCN) DES before BMA leaders enter talks on the 2021/22 contract – and called for further flexibility on PCN recruitment funding.

Plans to ask primary care network (PCN) staff to work longer hours during the pandemic could put them at risk of burnout – and won’t solve capacity problems in primary care, GPs have warned.

Plans to ask primary care network (PCN) staff to work longer hours during the pandemic could put them at risk of burnout – and won’t solve capacity problems in primary care, GPs have warned.

Plans to ask primary care network (PCN) staff to work longer hours during the pandemic could put them at risk of burnout – and won’t solve capacity problems in primary care, GPs have warned.

GPs in rural areas are struggling to deliver primary care network (PCN) targets because national policy is built around ‘leading light’ networks in urban areas, a study has found.

GPs in rural areas are struggling to deliver primary care network (PCN) targets because national policy is built around ‘leading light’ networks in urban areas, a study has found.

GPs in rural areas are struggling to deliver primary care network (PCN) targets because national policy is built around ‘leading light’ networks in urban areas, a study has found.

Hundreds of millions of pounds could be lost to primary care if primary care networks (PCNs) fail to recruit ‘additional roles’ staff in 2020/21 despite the ongoing pandemic, NHS England has warned.