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General Medical Services Contract / Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contract By brendan 2nd April 2021
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Bannview Medical Practice, Portadown Health Centre, Portadown, BT62 3BU
The Health & Social Care Board (HSCB) is seeking to enter into a full time contract for the provision of General Medical Services in Portadown, Co. Armagh under either a General Medical Services (GMS) Contract or an Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contract. The HSCB welcome single or joint applications. Applications are also welcome from neighbouring GP Practices who may wish to operate an additional surgery in Portadown.
The current contractor is providing General Medical Services from Portadown Health Centre, premises which are owned by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust. The Practice has a current list size of 4,905 patients (Jan 21). The new contractor will be required to take the current Practice staff on transfer under The Service Provision Ch
The cross-border transfer of critically-ill children for life-saving surgery in Dublin is facing an uncertain future due to Brexit, it has been warned.
It has emerged that all doctors and nurses from Northern Ireland who also work south of the border in any capacity must be registered with Irish regulatory bodies by April 1 as a result of Northern Ireland leaving the EU.
This includes medics and nursing staff who travel with children who are being transferred to the Republic of Ireland for treatment unavailable in Northern Ireland, including babies born with life-threatening congenital heart defects.
Paediatric cardiac surgery is no longer carried out in Northern Ireland after a review of the service found that it was unsustainable.
The UK s regulatory body is expected to approve the drug in the coming days.
That has been branded a game changer in the fight to bring the pandemic under control by Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association s (BMA) Northern Ireland Council.
Health officials have asked family doctors to draw up lists of patients in the over-80 cohort to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford University jab once it has been given the go-ahead.
It is the latest development in the largest and most complex mass vaccination programme ever carried out.
Approval of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is considered significant as it is cheaper and much easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer vaccine currently being used by the health trusts.