deputy news editor @pulsetoday 🗞🫀| prev: health & politics reporter @TheOxfordMail + @henleystandard @leponline @warwickboar | DMs open 📩
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🚨some job news!!🚨
Super excited to have joined @pulsetoday as their new senior reporter 🫀🗞
I’ll be covering all things GPs, NHS & health policy 🩺
Feel free to say hi👋 📩[email protected]
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
GP practices overlooked in Government £140m winter pressure boost
There is a ‘massive need’ for winter capacity in GP practices around common winter illnesses and exacerbations of chronic illnesses.
As ever, the elephant in the room is general practice
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
In the latest Pulse podcast, Tom Dolphin raises concerns about new government proposals that would allow physician associates in primary care to see undifferentiated patients.
Listen to the full discussion pulsetoday.pulse.ly/ag63mxsw…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
If pharmacists and APs are:
🚨Assessing complex, undifferentiated patients
🚨Rejecting referrals
🚨Filling doctor rota slots
Then we need to be honest about what's happening: this is doctor substitution, with serious consequences for patients.
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
"‘I keep having to see the patient afterwards, it means patients have delayed care. Highly inefficient, costly and unsafe.’"
#NHS
Doctor substitution is proving to be a mistaken and costly experiment. The safe and proper solutions are the obvious ones.
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
The pharmacy-based cholesterol testing pilot should assess testing volumes, which patients are reached, cardiovascular risk identified, health inequalities, GP workload, duplication of existing services, clinical outcomes and full programme costs. pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinic…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
Pharmacies to offer cholesterol checks as part of NHS England pilot
There needs to be ‘a genuine joined up approach’ to prevention & treatment
Funding one part of primary care to do the tests without funding GPs to deal with the additional work, madness
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
Of particular concern was the underlying narrative that emerged around neighbourhood working
For many, the emphasis appeared less focused on improving outcomes for people & more focused on achieving financial recovery within acute provider organisations
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
One in three @rcgp GP practices reduce face-to-face appointments with pts in @NHSEngland due to online access changes
pulsetoday.co.uk/news/contra… via @AnnaColivicchi
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
Hospital to community! @NHSEngland @DHSCgovuk @YvetteCooperMP
Nah scrap that let’s use the community budget in hospitals
🤦🏻♂️
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
👇Read about the #RebuildGeneralPractice campaign's letter to the new Health Secretary @YvetteCooperMP in Pulse in the link below.
#RebuildGP #TeamGP @DHSCgovuk
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
What are we trying to invent here? Is it outpatients in the community or is it actually community care? A mixed up approach, going on here, & I’m concerned that we are missing something in terms of what we already have, and how do we integrate that better
pulsetoday.co.uk/news/premis…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
The CQC and the GMC have asked NHS England for ‘clarity’ on 11 areas related to advice and guidance (A&G), including a clearer articulation of A&G, GP indemnity, and patient safety implications pulsetoday.co.uk/news/referr…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
Underfunding of NHS spirometry services impacts on the ability of GPs to diagnose and manage common respiratory conditions such as COPD in the community. A “postcode lottery” of provision therefore risks exacerbating existing health inequalities. pulsetoday.co.uk/analysis/sp…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
Exclusive from @hhetherington_ - GPs in several areas of England are not being paid to offer common tests to diagnose conditions like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinic…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
Congratulations @AnnaColivicchi, @pulsetoday, for being named one of this year's #30ToWatch winners in the Health category.
Thanks to our category judges @eleanorhayward, Health Editor at @thetimes, and @HSJAnnabelle, Deputy Bureau Chief at @HSJnews.
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Anna Colivicchi retweeted
Advice & Guidance can be a valuable clinical tool, but only when it is optional. GP leaders across the UK have backed that call. We have raised these concerns since March. This week's UK LMCs conference confirmed they are shared among GP leaders nationwide pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinic…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
NHS England is planning to introduce self-testing to allow patients to carry out a range of blood tests at home. Self-testing could reduce demands on NHS phlebotomy services but will need monitoring to ensure cost-effectiveness and equitable take-up. pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinic…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
‼️GPs refer for a reason.
🚨Letting non-doctors reject those referrals risks delays, missed diagnoses, and unsafe care.
This looks less like efficiency and more like shrinking waiting lists on paper.
Patients need timely access to the right expertise.
pulsetoday.co.uk/news/referr…
Anna Colivicchi retweeted
‘Too much focus’ on digital and online services is affecting continuity of care in @rcgp general practice according to the public, a new @RebuildGP survey has found. pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinic… via @AnnaColivicchi
