Jess Hacker @jesskhacker
Health and NHS reporter | 🧬🧫 🚑 | @pulsetoday @hcleadernews London, England Joined November 2022-
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GP at Hand pauses out-of-area patient registrations bit.ly/3SZCYJR
BREAKING: NHS England imposes GP contract with focus on access, with practices told they will have to offer patients an ‘assessment of need’ on first contact and will ‘no longer be able to request that patients contact the practice at a later time’. bit.ly/3ymhdKt
The five ICBs with the greatest number of staff are: Greater Manchester (1,863) West Yorkshire (1,211) Cheshire and Merseyside (1,076) North West London (920) North East London (873) bit.ly/3IGKQMO
Resignations from ICBs have topped 1,200 since the bodies gained statutory footing in July of last year bit.ly/3XQOyYk
Revealed: Tens of millions of unspent ARRS funding to be lost to general practice bit.ly/3wPaMza
Exclusive: More than a third of ICBs are reallocating money to primary care under the addition roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) with a further five inviting bids for funding bit.ly/3JsGYje
.@MichaelMarmot warns of short term fixes for the NHS: 'If you want a Swiss model, or if you've decided it's going to be an insurance based system with private provision, then come out and say that. But if you actually think the NHS is the right model, don't undermine it.'
.@MichaelMarmot: 'If we want the national government to solve the problem of health inequalities, we've got to move being a poor country with a few rich people to improving the living conditions for the bottom 60% of the population' Speaking @WHFEvents' health inequalities conf
It comes as the Government invites trade unions to discuss introducing a ‘safety net of minimum service levels’ bit.ly/3QmsEdi
GPs expected to lead in new service for transgender children bit.ly/3H2JVGa
The scheme will see link workers sent on house calls to corroborate patients’ reports of poor housing quality, to help trigger action from the council or housing association. bit.ly/3hQh8tI

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