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Primary care news round-up (20th to 26th March 2025)

Practice Index

This compared with 87 in 2022 and 52 in 2021. The post Primary care news round-up (20th to 26th March 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. Yorkshire practices face crime increase Practices in South Yorkshire have suffered a steep increase in incidents of crime. 16,000 doctors took part in the survey.

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Congress Introduces Safe Staffing Bill for Hospitals to Protect Nurses

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National Nurses United has been gathering support for the bill as it makes the rounds in Congress. A 2021 study found that if New York had passed a similar safe staffing law, 4,370 lives would have been saved that year alone. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09) in the House. It is set to be introduced today during a press conference.

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Aflac Finds Health Care and Financial Stress will “Dampen 2021 Holiday Magic” in U.S. Households

Health Populi

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.

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19Labs, Funding Experts Partner To Guide Healthcare Providers On 2021 FCC Funding Application

19 Labs

On March 30, 2021, the FCC announced that it would move forward with a second round of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, this time with a total of $250M to be provided in funding. Over 500 health systems benefitted from this , but applications were halted on June 25, 2020 due to increasing demand.

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Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023

Health Populi

The first line chart illustrates how this phenomenon shot up in importance for large companies between 2021 and 2022. This is our annual go-to study guiding us on the private sector’s big thinking about health care plans and investments on workers’ behalf.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Suzette Porter

Minority Nurse

Through Porter’s leadership as a nurse manager, her unit was awarded the Team Daisy Award in 2021 for teamwork. So, at the time, the hospital had, I think we still do because that’s where I graduated from in 2021, Ashford, where you’ll go to school to further your education. I started in 2019 and graduated in 2021 with my MBA.

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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021. One-half of people said they were comfortable using the technology, shown in the third graphic from the ACHP/AMCP survey.

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