Structure of a Successful Practice
After years of working for a bank supporting clients in the healthcare sector, I have a great understanding of how successful practices structure themselves. The practice structure can be considered from both an [...]
The challenges of staff recruitment and retention in the health and care sector. Written by Paul Dodd
Staff recruitment and retention are a challenge. This a statement most would agree with, and some may think it a major understatement. In June 2022 the Health and Social Care Workforce Committee reported [...]
Charging for GP appointments will never work, say PMA
GPs and other medical professionals have supported the PMA in rejecting the former Health Secretary’s calls to charge for GP appointments and A&E visits.Sajid Javid described the present model of the NHS ‘unsustainable’, adding “Too [...]
Stop the rhetoric surrounding face-to-face GP appointments, say PMA
THE PMA is calling for the rhetoric surrounding the so-called lack of face-to-face appointments with GPs to end, as reports of abuse towards Practice staff continues. Violence, abuse and criminal damage is never acceptable [...]
PMA Awards 2022: Winners revealed
THE annual PMA Awards ceremony has taken place at the 2022 Best Practice Show hosted at the NEC in Birmingham last week. Thousands of healthcare professionals attended the show across two days, which including [...]
PMA calls for better pay for care workers
AS the PMA widens its provision for training and education in the care sector - including the Excellence in Personalised Care Certificate and Senior Adult Care Worker Level 3 - it has also called [...]