Primary care came under the spotlight this week, with the resignation of the NHS England director of primary care over comments made online around smaller practices. The RCGP also called for an extra £2.5bn a year on top of the existing £2.4bn a year so that GPs could better deliver the GP Forward View, whilst London GPs had successfully made the switch to the new Electronic Prescription Service. NHS Improvement chief executive Ian Dalton told the HSJ that trust debts may need to be written off, whilst also stating that further productivity improvements will be required. Emails revealing the row between Babylon and the CQC have been published, whilst in other deployment news Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has selected Allscripts Sunrise as its electronic health record, and IMS Maxims has announced that it has gained accreditation to offer cloud-based services to the NHS under the government’s latest G-Cloud 10 framework.
Healthcare Roundup 10 August 2018
