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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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Clinical Commissioning Groups: size, shape and securing localism

This advisory paper has been prepared to summarise the key issues associated with size and

configuration of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and propose how they might be

addressed to maximise clinical leadership and engagement in commissioning. It does not

represent DH policy, but takes into account the current content of the Health & Social Care

Bill and latest DH draft guidance. It is, however, being released at a time when the Bill has

not yet received Royal Assent - and therefore must be read and used in that context.

Read the Advisory paper in full here:

http://www.napc.co.uk/index.php/component/option,com_phocadownload/Itemid,90/id,2/view,category/

 

NAPC Bulletin 7 February 2012

News From NAPC

Last week saw meetings of NAPC’s Executive, Council and Partners.  The Council meeting was attended by Professor Steve Field and chaired by Dr James Kingsland (President of NAPC).  For the first time since he became chairman in January, the Executive meeting was chaired by Dr Charles Alessi.

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NAPC News 6 February 2012

Miliband Claims Scrapping Reforms Could Save 6,000 Nursing Jobs

Ed Miliband has claimed that the total number of nurses working within the NHS has been cut by 3,500 since the general election and could fall by 2,500 by the end of this Parliament. 

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Is the NHS Commissioning Board really being
set up to liberate CCGs?

Press Release 06/02/2012

NHS Alliance/NAPC Clinical Commissioning Coalition’s response to NHS Commissioning Board update.


In the Department of Health’s original guidance Developing the NHS Commissioning Board (July 2011), Sir David Nicholson said: "CCGs will be the engine of the new system and things will only be done at a different level of the system where there is evidence that this produces better results."

Fast forward a few months and the Government’s document Design of the NHS Commissioning Board, released on 2 February, seems to be telling a completely different story. What we see are layers of bureaucracy and management, with complex guidelines. The old ‘footprint’, i.e. 50 local offices, remains there, plus four sector outposts, all using a single operating model.

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