GP premises need major investment to let PCNs recruit, warns BMA
Primary care networks (PCNs) are struggling to make use of hundreds of millions of pounds in recruitment cash because practices have no room to accommodate new staff, the BMA has warned.
by Luke Haynes
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The map which shows how many cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in each area of the country each week Shinfield is the area of Wokingham that recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases last week. The latest figures show 545 people tested positive for the virus in Wokingham between January 12 to January 19 – 149 fewer than in the previous week. Public Health England has broken down the data to show the number of confirmed cases recorded in local neighbourhoods, which are known as Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs). In Shinfield, 46 people tested positive for the virus between January 12 and January 19. There were 45 confirmed cases in Earley, 41 in Wokingham Town, 40 in Woodley South and 35 in Lower Earley South.
GPs are administering COVID-19 vaccines at individual practices to boost uptake among vulnerable patients following changes to how the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab can be delivered, GPonline has learned.
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In a recent
HSJ roundtable the panel explored the advances that have been made in caring for people remotely with the help of technology, whether these changes are embedded and the challenges still remaining
When Rupa Joshi thinks of how technology has been used to support patients during the first wave of the pandemic, she comes up with no shortage of examples. But one feels especially powerful: video consultations and, in particular, virtual group consultations for those living with long-term conditions that place them at high risk from covid.
“Patients were feeling very frightened, upset at home, not feeling they had access to us,” says Dr Joshi, a practising GP and co-clinical director for Wokingham North primary care network.