GP ratings launched on NHS Choices
The Department of Health has launched a controversial online rating service to let patients rate and compare GP practices.
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Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’
Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial IT companies as “naïve” and “dangerous.” Writing in The Times yesterday, the MP for Haltemprice and Howden said the first time he read about the policy his “heart sank.” “The policy described was so naïve, […]
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BMA works with NHS Choices on GP ratings
The BMA’s GP committee has confirmed it is working with NHS Choices to enable patients to rate and review their GP practices on the flagship NHS website. The General Practitioner Committee described the concept as a “meaningless popularity contest” in December when the proposed service was announced by health minister Ben Bradshaw but has now […]
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Patients to rate GPs’ appearance online
A new online ranking site is set to be launched offering a fresh twist on ‘rate-my-doc’ services by allowing patients to rate their GP in terms of attractiveness, dress sense and personal hygiene. The new service will for the first time give patients choice over how ‘hot’ their GP is, with family doctors rated on […]
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Personal view: Dr Bhupinder Mangat
Doctors can’t dismiss the power of the internet to enhance patient feedback, says Dr Bhupinder Mangat, a GP in Hounslow.
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NHS Choices to offer GP rating for patients
Patients will be able to rate their GP’s performance via the NHS Choices website from next summer, according to reports today. Health minister, Ben Bradshaw says in an interview with the Guardian that he wants the site to do for healthcare what Amazon has done for the book trade. The idea was condemned by the […]
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PBC satisfaction improves
GP practices are becoming slightly more satisfied with the quality of information they receive for practice-based commissioning – although more than one in three still rate it as poor or very poor. The latest Department of Health survey on PBC shows that 36% of practices rate the quality of information they receive as fairly or […]
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Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices
Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the bid to run the DH flagship site, today launched Drfosterhealth.co.uk, which brings together information from its consumer guides to hospitals, consultants, birth and complementary therapists. The website aims to be “the complete online medical guide […]
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Doctors complain about rating website
Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month to enable patients to post comments about individual GPs and patients. However doctors have complained that the site is in breach of the Data Protection Act by including their names on its database and refusing […]
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Anite helps raise social services ratings
Specialist technology solutions are helping local councils which provide adult social services to improve their performance, systems supplier Anite Public Sector said. The company found that 54% of the 24 councils with improved marks in the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) Performance Ratings for Adult Social Services in England were using its SWIFT system. […]
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