National Association of Primary Care
NAPC – “The Home of Clinical Commissioning”
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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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Commissioning Support Survey
The Clinical Commissioning Coalition (NAPC/NHSA) would like to determine what is happening at CCG level about commissioning support choice in order to enable us to provide hard information to the Department of Health. It is important that CCGs are able to act autonomously and have access to their preferred commissioning support.
Please respond to the following questions by clicking the link below and answering Yes or No below or entering free text, where appropriate. The results of this very short but important survey will be posted on NAPC and NHSA websites at www.napc.co.uk and www.nhsalliance.org and shared with the Department of Health.
Please respond by Friday 3rd February 2012
Thank you for your assistance.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9ZVCWBC
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Members Publications
These Publications are for NAPC members only, and can be accessed by logging in to your account on this website and following this link (http://www.napc.co.uk/index.php/component/option,com_phocadownload/Itemid,90/view,sections/), or by emailing us at
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NAPC News 27 January 2012
Commissioning Board Warns Of 11 Key Risks
The NHS Commissioning Board has admitted that key risk to its success include the haemorrhaging of senior leaders during the reform transition and a shortage of staff to commission specialist and primary care.
The organisation has set out the 11 most significant risks in a document showing the first detailed proposals for its own design, structure and functions. It was published today.
The document, Design of the NHS Commissioning Board, says one of the main risks to its ‘resilience’ will be trying to run its functions with ’50 per cent less resource by 2014/15.’
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NAPC News 26 January 2012
Gagging Of Whistleblower Doctors Banned
New guidance issued by the General Medical Council has said that doctors will be banned from signing gagging clauses that stop them raising concerns about patient safety.
Niall Dickson, the CEO of the GMC, said: ‘Doctors must not sign contracts that attempt to prevent them from raising concerns with professional regulators such as the GMC. Those who promote or sign such agreements are breaking their professional obligations and putting their careers at risk.’
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Press Release
Commissioning Reforms
25th January 2012
The coalition of the National Association of Primary Care and the NHS Alliance, are membership bodies which, between them, represent 75 per cent of primary care.
There is a high level of national debate on the NHS Bill and the reforms proposed, as highlighted by the responses to the Health Select Committee’s report this week. It is vital that we have this debate. We believe it is essential that we proceed with the reforms and empower clinicians and their patients to make the decisions about the health care they receive.
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