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Patients to rate GPs on website

(BBC 30/12/2008)

Patients in England will be able to comment on their GP's performance on an NHS website, under government plans. It is hoped the website would improve standards through competition, with people being invited to post messages about their experiences of GPs. The Department of Health said remarks will be moderated to prevent defamation and the identification or rating of individual doctors.

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Hospitals 'are medical factories'

(BBC 03/12/2008)

Hospitals are medical factories which churn patients through without treating them with enough kindness and respect, a leading think-tank says. The King's Fund said the problem is not so much with medical care, but the way patients are treated personally. And it called for a re-think as it launched a series of trials aimed at revamping attitudes to patients.

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'Sabotage' claims over doctors site

(BBC 29/07/2008)

Some doctors are being accused of sabotaging a new website which allows patients to rate their GP.

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Nine in ten patients satisfied with GP access

(eHealthInsider 17/07/2008)

Nearly nine in ten patients are satisfied with their ability to get through to their GP practice on the telephone, according to the latest survey of almost two million patients.

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Doctors' pulses racing over patient-care rating website

(The Scotsman 15/07/2008)

DOCTORS today hit out at a new website encouraging patients to rate their standard of care.

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ENT clinic in remote link

(The Scotsman 03/06/2008)

PATIENTS in the Western Isles are being diagnosed by video in a move aimed at improving health care in rural areas.

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Targets are crowding out compassion in the NHS, claims report

(The Independent 01/06/2008)

A lack of compassion is putting patients at risk in the NHS, a new report will claim today. Failure to provide humane care has become endemic in the health services because beleaguered staff have too little time to pay adequate attention to fundamental human needs, the NHS Confederation report warns.

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GPs lose right to dispense drugs in shake-up of rural health services

(The Independent 06/05/2008)

Up to three million NHS patients could lose the right to obtain prescription drugs from their GP under proposals to boost the development of rural pharmacies in Britain.

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