Analysis Topic: Local Issues
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
UK GP Patient Survey Results 2011 - NHS Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The latest results for the Department of Health Funded UK GP Survey have been recently released that covers the year to March 2011. The survey featured more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 1.96 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 68,242 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 26,193 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Darnall Community Health, Sheffield UK NHS GP Patient Survey Results Update / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The latest results for the Department of Health Funded UK GP Survey have been recently released that cover the 4 quarters for September 2010. The survey features more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 2.06 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 67,842 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 91 GP surgeries of which 26,865 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received for all of Sheffield's GP surgeries.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
New Darnall Medical Health Centre Built, Delayed or Scrapped ? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey 2009-10 featured more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 2.17 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 65,339 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 27,380 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received for all of Sheffield's GP surgeries.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Sheffield NHS GP Consortia's Are Anti-Competitive and Should be Scrapped / Local / NHS
By: N_Walayat
The core at the heart of Coalition Government's NHS reforms is to scrap ALL NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCT's) to be replaced by competing GP Consortia's to directly manage patient treatment commissioning (the process could take 2-3 years to implement).
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Sheffield NHS GP Post Code Lottery Map, The Best and Worst Ranked Surgeries / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Britain's post code lottery in health services manifests itself in the failure of GP's and PCT's to equally prescribe life saving and prolonging medicines and treatments regardless of where patients live. The greatest disparity in health care provision observed is that of between affluent and deprived areas of the country where life expectancy can differ by as much as 14 years within just a couple of miles distance as a consequence of real GP performance against NHS propaganda of uniform delivery that this article seeks to put the spot light on for the city of Sheffield.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
NHS GP's Ignore Men's Health Resulting in 100,000 Premature Deaths Per Year / Local / NHS
By: N_Walayat
The Men's Health Forum, a charity aimed at targeting the inequalities in NHS delivery that results in 1/5th of men dieing before they reach the age of 65 as against 13% of women, has launched a campaign called "Lives to Short" to highlight the discrimination in the delivery of UK health services that effectively puts off men from seeking help due to their natural tendency towards reluctance to make a fuss.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Darnall Community Health Sheffield - UK GP Patient Survey Results 2010 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey 2009-10 recently released results of more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 2.17 million were returned.
For the city of Sheffield a total of 65,339 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 27,380 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received for all of Sheffield's GP surgeries.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Sheffield NHS Spending Cuts, PCT Scrapped, Which GP's Next? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The new Coalition Government was apparently so impressed by the performance of the NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCT's) that as part of its cost cutting austerity plan it intends to scrap ALL PCT's in favour of GP Consortia's directly managing patient treatment commissioning (the process could take 2-3 years to implement). This means Sheffield NHS PCT who's achievements include employing 400 bureaucrats in a new multi-million pound headquarters is destined to disappear from Sheffield's health landscape.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Sheffield NHS GP Walk In Centre / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The last Labour governments solution towards badly performing GP surgeries was to introduce Super Surgeries or Poly Clinics. Sheffield saw its own GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery open during mid 2009 that aimed to fill the gap in the wide disparity in quality of GP health care throughout the city by operating a 7 days a week service from 8am to 8pm.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Sheffield NHS UK GP Patient Survey Results 2009-10 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey presents an excellent record of the actual quality of patient experience of using NHS GP services across England. The 2009-10 Q4 survey results have now been released that bring the total detailed questionnaires being sent out to patients during the year to more than 5.5 million across England of which 2.17 million have been returned.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Liberal Democrats Punish Sheffield for Voting Labour By Scrapping ForgeMasters Loan / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Con-Dem government eager to implement a hit list of spending cuts that primarily target Labour area's of the country have started the ball rolling with £2 billion of cuts in planned projects which range from a new £450 million front line NHS hospital to an £80 million loan to Sheffield ForgeMasters that would have been the genesis for the development of a nuclear power industry in the cities steel sector.
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Darnall Community Health New NHS Medical Centre Delayed Opening Until Late 2011 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The patients of Darnall having to put up with Sheffield's bottom ranking GP services (as per the Department of Health Funded UK GP Patient Survey) have been eagerly awaiting the development of a New Darnall Medical Centre that was given the go ahead in September last year that had construction work planned to commence early 2010 at the Darnall Main Road site.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sheffield NHS UK GP Patient Survey Surgery Rankings 2009-10 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The highly credible Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey has continued to give patients a voice as to the actual quality of healthcare services they are in receipt of at their local surgeries across England.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sheffield NHS GP Surgery League Table, The Best and Worst / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
This article seeks to analyse patient feedback for the city of Sheffield from the data compiled by the Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey conducted by Ipsos MORI during early 2009 that sent out a questionnaire to 5.7 million NHS GP patients and therefore comprises the most comprehensive data available as to patient feedback of actual experience of using GP Services.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sheffield GP Super Surgery Polyclinic NHS Healthcare Centre / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield, Britain's fifth largest city saw its own GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery open earlier in the year that aimed to fill the gap in delivering competent GP healthcare services, 7 days a week from 8am to 8pm, which after initial teething problems it is hoped that the Super Surgery will deliver quality and timely healthcare to many of the people of Sheffield that remain deprived of good quality healthcare.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
UK Swine Flu Pandemic NHS Online Service to Bypass Inept GP Surgeries / Local / Global Pandemic
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The British government will tomorrow implement new measures to ensure that those that need the anti-viral's such as Tami-flu are more likely to receive treatment than would have otherwise transpired under the existing procedures of contacting ones local GP surgeries. In total so far 29 people have died from swine flu, though many had underlying health issues. The mainstream press recently ran with scare mongering headlines of as many as 65,000 deaths which is set against a normal seasonal flu toll of between 6000-10000 deaths. Another significant factor is that swine flu tends to hit the young more than the elderly, so children are at much greater risk than with the usual seasonal variant.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Blue Inc Sheffield Meadowhall Shopping Transaction Problems? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The depression in the retail sector is starting to throw up some strange anomalies in retailer behaviour as observed in the deterioration of the quality of service in some high street chains.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sheffield NHS Dentist Taking on New Patients Analysis / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The local newspaper, the Sheffield Star recently reported Kate Jones, director of Dental Public Health at NHS Sheffield stating that: "There are currently 18 dental practices taking on new NHS patients in Sheffield.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Sheffield NHS GP Services Depriving the Deprived Wards of Healthcare / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
A string of reports have highlighted the large disparity in healthcare provision between that for affluent area's and deprived areas right across the country. Where the greater the deprivation the less funds tend to be allocated towards funding of health services for the deprived area, hence the oft mentioned post code lottery.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Rate Your Sheffield NHS GP Doctor Surgery / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Rate Your Sheffield NHS GP Surgery Quality of Service
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