Patient feedback

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QoF ‘fails to promote access’

The Quality and Outcomes Framework has failed to promote improved access or continuity in general practice, according to a new
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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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Doc ratings site moves into charity work

The controversial website iwantgreatcare, which allows patients to rate their doctors, is expanding into other areas of NHS work, in
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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
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How the web threatens GP reputations

Lawyer Magnus Boyd argues that ratings websites can destroy doctors’ reputations in the time it takes to send an e-mail.
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New website lets patients rate doctors

Dr Neil Bacon founder of www.iWantGreatCare.org A website has been launched that allows patients to rate individual GPs and hospital
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Experience information deficit must be overcome

A steering group focused on harnessing the power of public opinion has found that many NHS boards do not have
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Patient Opinion website extends across England

Patient Opinion, the independent website founded by a Sheffield GP for recording good and bad comments on hospital care, goes
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BMA sits on critical Choose and Book survey results

The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical
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Long Eaton Health Centre implements VoIP system

Long Eaton Health Centre, an all-in-one clinic in Derbyshire County PCT has gone live with a new Voice over Internet
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