Health services

“Many optical practices still rely on faxes to hospitals, or letters to overstretched GPs, to refer patients into secondary care”

Payments will move to PCSE in a number of areas in England

Plans to ease referral challenges in the wake of a veto on fax machines are set to be announced in January

The business, which is the second largest provider of cataract surgeries in the UK, has opened its ninth site 

The London Eye Diagnostic Centre moves to the Phoenix Hospital Group’s Harley Street facility

For the fourth month in a row, Primary Care Support England has confirmed that some contractors will be affected by late GOS payments

Some GOS contractors will receive ad-hoc reimbursement to ensure that all payments are made by the end of March

LOCSU and the Optical Confederation have criticised Capita’s continuity planning after widespread payment delays were attributed to “adverse weather”

Capita confirms that staff contacted 900 practitioners at the end of January to request further information

Primary Care Support England has backtracked on a previous promise to process payments by the end of December