National Association of Primary Care
NAPC – “the independent voice of primary care”
Welcome
What is different about the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC)?
NAPC is the leading membership organisation, driving forward tomorrow's changes today. It is both a non-political and non-profit making body, which represents and supports the interests of all its members within primary care. Our policy is to seek to influence the primary health care agenda to bring about locally sensitive, appropriate and timely services for local populations.
NAPC is the only organisation in primary care, which has any historic experience among its officers and members, of GP practices managing real budgets. The demands and challenges of GP commissioning are in our blood stream; our understanding of the details of the processes involved is second to none.
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GPs Pose £2bn Threat To Commissioning Budget
Letter to HSJ
Dear Editor
In many ways, I am comforted. I know exactly where GPs stand in relation to the rest of the NHS and the journals supporting it. There is no longer any pretence, no longer subterfuge; it has all now become transparent and explicit. GPs with budgets and brains attract loathing from the NHS' remaining constituent parts. And so it was the case with GP Fundholders and those dear to them.
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Calls for Nominations for President & Annual General Meeting
As per the Association's Constitution we are seeking members to send in nominations for the post of President and invite you to attend this year's AGM which will be held on 22nd September from 11:00 - 12:00 at Lettsom House, 11Chandos Street, London W1G 1DP.
The position of President is currently held by Dr James Kingsland who has signalled his intention to stand for the ensuing year.
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NHS Reforms - GP Commissioners
National Association of Primary Care (NAPC)
Press Release
17 August 2010
With widespread reports about how the reforms are being slowed down by disenchanted NHS employees and the Civil Service itself with reams of bureaucratic guidance, a deterrent for any jobbing GP, NAPC's message to its members and more widely is to move towards the establishment of GP Commissioning arrangements as soon as is possible, within local limitations.
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GP commissioning - what should GPs and PCTs be doing next?
To read the full article cliThe recent White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, sets out a radical vision for the future of the NHS. Clinicians are to be placed at the heart of decision making through the introduction of GP Commissioning consortia, and the NHS Commissioning Board in place of Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities.
The launch of the White Paper has led to welcome debate and created a sense of urgency to progress implementation in many parts of the country. Although the full transition to the new system might appear to be relatively slow - for example PCTs are to be abolished from 2013 - change needs to be rapid. Whilst much of the detail of the policy has yet to be defined, the expectation in the chief executive of the NHS, David Nicholson's letter, ‘Managing the Transition', is that the first GP Commissioning consortia should be taking on significant levels of responsibility in 2010/2011.
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Dear Colleagues
Calling all Practice Managers and Nurses
NAPC Annual 2010 Conference
Hilton Metropole Birmingham
Williams Medical Services' Practice Manager and Practice Nurse of the Year Awards - Closing Date 20th August 2010
I am writing to encourage you to demonstrate your skills and talents this year as potential winners of Williams Medical Services' Practice Manager and Practice Nurse of the Year Awards. Primary health care in the UK is vibrant and among the best in the world. You are significant contributors in making this so - let us applaud your splendid achievements at our Gala Awards Dinner in Birmingham at the above conference on 20 October 2010.
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