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NHS England is to look at whether the NHS is recruiting the right kind of GPs to ensure better management of long-term conditions, its head of primary care commissioning has told Pulse.
Dr David Geddes, head of primary care commissioning at NHS England, said that while CCGs are showing willingness to align the workforce to work preventatively with patients with long-term conditions, there are barriers in the primary care systems to achieving this goal, which has been set out as one of the key mandates for NHS England to work towards.
The news comes as NHS England has kicked off a review of primary care that will lead to a national strategy being set out later this year, with Dr Geddes confirming that looking at the GP workforce and its professional development would form part of that process.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-pr...re-becoming-gps/20002974.article#.UZPMSbW2aSo
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Dr David Geddes, head of primary care commissioning at NHS England, said that while CCGs are showing willingness to align the workforce to work preventatively with patients with long-term conditions, there are barriers in the primary care systems to achieving this goal, which has been set out as one of the key mandates for NHS England to work towards.
The news comes as NHS England has kicked off a review of primary care that will lead to a national strategy being set out later this year, with Dr Geddes confirming that looking at the GP workforce and its professional development would form part of that process.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-pr...re-becoming-gps/20002974.article#.UZPMSbW2aSo
(free registration required)