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Doctor’s Failure to Follow Up on Medical Test Leads to Large Settlement

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for physicians to order tests and then fail to follow up on results — often due to the sheer volume of patients that the physician sees. However, Dr P, who had an extremely high caseload at the medical center, failed to follow up on this finding. However, Mr W would not make it until then.

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Primary care news round-up (31st October to 6th November 2024)

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told practices he is “aware” of the problem, but following last week’s budget, ministers said practices or the NHS would have to cover the increase. Alarm at latest tech outage Practices have called for more choice in IT following the latest problems with the EMIS systems. Practices were awarded 4.4%

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Primary care news round-up (29th August to 5th September 2024)

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According to the IGPM, the Department of Health should follow suit. Over the 14 years that led up to 2019, the number of appointments per patient remained much the same, but the length of time per consultation increased by nearly half. The proposal comes after the Government decision to end one-word Ofsted gradings for schools.

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Primary care news round-up (4th April to 11th April 2024)

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Right care, first time Practice managers are launching a major campaign to tackle public frustration at the delays in gaining GP appointments. It follows the national drive to diversify primary care teams, introducing a range of professions to support GPs. The local ICB reports 25,000 missed appointments in February alone.

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Primary care news round-up (18th July to 24th July 2024)

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CrowdStrike crisis highlights concerns about IT backups The NHS needs to find an improved way of backing up its IT systems following the havoc caused by the CrowdStrike failure last week, a senior GP has said. Practices were badly hit by the CrowdStrike failure, which led to appointment systems and EMIS being inaccessible.

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Primary care news round-up (6th June to 12th June 2024)

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Flawed appointments measure shelved Practices had risked losing thousands of pounds because they could not provide accurate data on appointments for indicator ACC-08. The IGPM had warned NHS England of a “significant flaw” in one of the appointment management systems.

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Primary care news round-up (25th July to 1st August 2024)

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CQC shake-up pledge Practices have welcomed plans for a shake-up of the CQC after a review found major failings. Hope for end to trainee doctor strikes GP trainee strikes are expected to end following a deal between the medical unions and the Government. The proposed 6% would mean practices getting an extra 4.1% on top of the 1.9%