Reclaiming a Population Health Perspective

This research report explores the role general practices can play in improving population health at a time of increasing levels of chronic ill health and reduced budgets.

Summary
The report, which was written by the Nuffield Trust, commissioned by the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), examines the arguments for encouraging and enabling general practices to take a much more proactive role in improving the health and wellbeing of their local populations, as well as their individual patients.

Please follow the link for the report:

http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/publications/reclaiming-population-health-perspective

Please follow the link for Dr Nav Chana's Blog on the report:

http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/blog/how-primary-care-providers-can-rise-challenges-public-health-agenda

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NAPC briefing statement on General Practice’s response to the new DES’s

With the release of the new DES’s by the NHS Commissioning Board (now NHS England) The National Association of Primary Care polled its members to gauge their reaction to the release of these new enhanced services and to see whether any common themes emerged and whether the development of further, new DES’s could be improved.

There were three key messages that were made clear by our members;

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Turning the World Upside Down: new international relationships for health and development

Turning the World Upside Down - www.ttwud.org - is an open platform which anyone can contribute to, and is designed to:

• Collect examples of practices and innovation in health in low and middle income countries which could be used in Europe, the USA and anywhere else in the world
• Promote discussion and debate on mutual transfer of knowledge, 2 way innovation, co-development and frugal innovation
• Help shape new international relationships for health and development

Find out more: http://www.ttwud.org/live-launch-event

Quality Accounts
Wednesday 5th June 2013, London

This conference provides, through national updates and local case studies, an important update on strengthening quality accounts in response to the Francis recommendations following the Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry, which state, “Trust Boards should provide, through quality accounts, full and accurate information about their compliance or non-compliance with the fundamental standards and enhanced standards that apply to them. This data should be made available on each trust’s website, and should be audited. Quality accounts should contain information in a common form to enable comparisons to be made between organisations.”
For further information visit http://healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/quality-accounts-nhs-francis-inquiry-2013 or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Follow the conference on Twitter #QualityAcc2013.

Discount for NAPC Members: To reserve your place email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , with your full details

Consultation on GP Contracts 2013/2014

The government today published its response to the consultation on GP contracts. Five stakeholder organisations, including NAPC responded to the consultation and some changes have been made to the original proposals.

Click here to read the full Response