NAPC News 16 July 2010
News From NAPC
It has been a week of intense activity at NAPC headquarters and around the country, where our Executive members work.
Dr Marshall dined with the Secretary of State at a dinner of GP leaders on Wednesday and on Thursday he attended a further clinical leadership event, which NAPC has been heavily involved in developing on behalf of the Department of Health.
Recently, Drs Howard Freeman and Nav Chana, Executive members of NAPC and Mike Ramsden, its CEO, met with Lord Howe to discuss the implications of the White Paper for Primary Care. Dr Kingsland, NAPC's President and Mike Ramsden also met with Sir David Nicholson to discuss the current agenda.
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NAPC News 15 July 2010
White Paper: Setting Up National And Regional Arrangements
Sir David Nicholson, in his letter of 13 July, to Chief Executives in the NHS, said that for those parts of the system for which he was directly accountable, he had begun to put in places changes to allow the NHS to move towards the new world and manage the transition effectively.
SHAs will no longer exist from 2012/13. Instead, commissioning oversight will reside in the NHS Commissioning Board and provider issues will fall under a new system of regulation. The final format of relevant functions will be defined in the interim and remains subject to legislation. Immediate steps are to be taken to start to split commissioner and provider functions at national and regional level and to chart a path for the whole of the transition. To make these changes, it is necessary to ensure:
That changes have a clear national direction in order to ensure consistency and coherence and to reflect the end point of two new national organisations;
That the NHS moved with pace in order to the system to be ready by 2012;
That control was maintained of finance, performance, quality and productivity during the transition to a new system.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:03 |
The Health White Paper and what it means for General Practice
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The Government has confirmed that every GP practice will have commissioning
responsibility written into its contract by April 2013, as part of a seismic shift of power
towards GPs. The blueprint for NHS reforms detailed in the White Paper lays out plans
to overhaul the NHS through a series of flagship policies, including devolving power
and responsibility for commissioning to GPs, scrapping PCTs and SHAs, and a much
wider use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS).
The arrival of the White Paper has triggered some pressing questions for GPs.
•How can the NHS cope with soaring healthcare needs?
•How do you prepare for real budgets?
•How do you form a successful commissioning consortium?
•How do you deliver efficiency savings while also offering patients choice?
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National Association of Primary Care (NAPC)
Press Release
14 July 2010
In addressing some of the challenges and concerns that primary care have expressed, following the publication of the White Paper on Monday, Dr Johnny Marshall, Chairman of NAPC, commented: ‘I have heard concerns expressed by nurses, pharmacists and others about the White Paper agenda being a return once again to GP control. What I would say is that the world has moved on, the challenges are tremendous and the solutions lie in professionally-led partnership working across health and social care boundaries. Without the whole of the primary care team, management support, information and analysts, we shall be unable to rise to the challenge before us. It is vital that we recognise our inter-dependence, as we work across institutions and organistions, with our patients and clients at the core, to serve their needs.'
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NAPC News 14 July 2010
Liberating The NHS - Managing The Transition
David Nicholson yesterday wrote to the Chief Exective community to set out how the Department of Health proposed to lead the implementation of Liberating the NHS.
His first communication set out the initial steps he was taking at a national level to ensure that the NHS continued to deliver for today, whilst designing a new system for tomorrow. It provided a framework within which Strategic Health Authorities could lead the process regionally. It also set out some initial actions that commissioners and providers needed to take as part of the NHS' state of readiness for 2012.
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