Patient-centred Care – still top of the 2009 agenda

ΤThe Healthcare Commission came out its 5th and last report on the State of Healthcare in December. The report summarised the overall picture as “positive, with targets relating to the health of the population either met or on the way to being met with life expectancy increasing and rates of... 
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Mining the NHS Operating Framework 09-10

  The NHS Operating Framework 2009-10 for England  (OF) sets out a brief overview of the priorities for the NHS in the next financial year.  PCT managers are sweating over the framework as I write, producing their operating plans for the same period to reflect these national ”must dos”... 
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A Merry December Newsletter

LINKSLEARNING – hot off the press Fresh on the main Moore Adamson Craig site, is the first article under our LINKsLEARNING banner – how we set about building the Wandworth LINk website from scratch and at speed. Check it out here: http://www.mooreadamsoncraig.co.uk/LINks.php and if you have... 
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Engaging Health & Social Care Communities Online

Just published on the main Moore Adamson Craig site – a case history of building the website for the Wandsworth LINk: Engaging Health & Social Care Communities Online – setting up a website for Local Involvement Networks (opens as Adobe PDF file).  Read More →

Do the citizens of Bradford know something about primary care that Londoners don’t?

The first of the new 152 GP Led Health Centres around England opened last week in Bradford. The provider is an established Yorkshire social enterprise called Local Care Direct. Staff and local people are members and owners of the company.  Sounds like we could be behind the times in London yet again... 
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