As the health care system places a greater emphasis on primary care to keep patients out of the hospital and healthy, primary care remains the strongest area of demand.
His report also criticised serious problems at the clinic, jointly run by the hospital and the Haringey primary care trust, where there was a lack of staff and poor case management.
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The governors would have to be satisfied that increasing private income would not interfere with the hospital's primary duty of providing NHS care.
The local primary care trust, which oversaw the hospital at the time, failed to put in place a system which would pick up problems.
The Works plan includes 720 homes, a hospital, primary school, leisure centre and train station on the 185-acre site.
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The report said primary responsibility for the scandal lay with the board of the hospital, but also that the whole system had failed by putting corporate self-interest ahead of patients.
More often a patient will just go to whatever hospital or specialist the primary care doctor recommends.
The developers of the network, based at the University of Manchester in the UK, see its primary use in care homes or hospital wards, to raise an immediate alarm in the case of a fall.
The evaluation of the system at West Middlesex University Hospital has been held up by delays to the primary care review.
The hospital trust has hospital sites at Hemel Hempstead, Watford and St Albans but the report also covers the Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in Dacorum, Hertsmere and Three Rivers.
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Dr McNeil said one way of achieving his aim would be to implement a single system of healthcare throughout the primary, community, secondary and tertiary hospital sectors, so that in the next 10 to 20 years each area can experience the same level of quality.
The hospital makes the appointment with a primary care doctor before they're discharged, to ensure they can get one.
Last spring a tornado in Georgia wiped out the primary and backup data centers at Sumter Regional Hospital in South Carolina.
The second concern is about the financial risk to the locally based primary-care trusts which commission and pay for hospital work.
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Campaigners are urging West Suffolk Primary Care Trust to abandon proposed cuts at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket Hospital.
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Krabbenhoft wanted to dominate the Sioux Falls market by creating an integrated system in which the hospital owns a health plan and a huge practice of primary and specialty doctors who all refer to one another.
The Heart Hospital of Milwaukee had to close its doors in 2004 after primary care doctors stopped sending patients, at the behest of the nonprofit hospitals that owned their practices.
Forty percent of primary care physicians today who see patients at hospitals are employed by the hospital, which has doubled since 2000.
He said the primary care trust had to ensure their books were balanced as the responsibility for commissioning hospital services could be given to GP practices, under government proposals.
She has been a non-executive director of Northampton's primary care trust and its health authority and currently holds the same position at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.
Barker and Phillips studied data obtained from the death certificates of people who died in hospital settings between 1979 and 2006, culling those for which medication error was listed as the primary cause of death.
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He also said SCAS was looking at ways of working closely with primary care providers like doctors and nurses in the community so it would not always have to take patients to hospital.
In July, the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts said children's heart surgery would end at Leeds General Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital in Leicester and London's Royal Brompton, and treatment would instead be concentrated at seven specialist centres.
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