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In 2008, with 60% of Scotland's GP practices still using GPASS, a national procurement was announced as part of a managed transition off the platform. [12] Procurement began in July 2009. The planned date for retiral of the GPASS service was March 2012. By August 2012 all GP practices had migrated to either INPS Vision or EMIS PCS. [13]
Margaret Mary McCartney is a general practitioner, freelance writer and broadcaster based in Glasgow, Scotland.McCartney is a vocal advocate for evidence-based medicine. [1] [2] McCartney was a regular columnist at the British Medical Journal.
In Scotland GP practices are contracted by the health boards. [6] It was agreed in August 2014 that GPs in Scotland would have a separate contract with negotiations taking place which would come into force from 2017/18. It is proposed that they should give up employing practice staff and move 'as far towards salaried model as possible without ...
Punam Krishan was born 28 May 1983 [1] in Glasgow, and grew up in a small tenement flat with her younger sister and extended family. [2] Her parents had an arranged marriage, [3] and moved from Kapurthala in Punjab to Scotland [4] in the late 1970s, [3] where her father owned a corner shop. [2]
A study by the National Audit Office in July 2014 of people in England found that the urgent care system is complex and many people do not know how to contact out-of-hours GP services or even that such services exist; [10] that 26% had not heard of out-of-hours GP services, and 19% had not heard of NHS 111.
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599 GP practices closed between 2010–11 and 2014–15, while 91 opened and average practice list size increased from 6,610 to 7,171. [44] In 2016 there were 7,613 practices in England, 958 in Scotland, 454 in Wales and 349 in Northern Ireland. [45] There were 7,435 practices in England and the average practice list size in June 2017 was 7,860.
Sandesh Prakash Gulhane (born 22 January 1982) is a Scottish Conservative politician who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region since May 2021. [1] He is the Scottish Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.