NAPC welcomes the publication today of ‘Keeping it Personal’, which is a resounding testimony to the high quality primary care which exists today in the United Kingdom. Care, which, as the report identifies, ‘stands alone’ in a number of key areas.
The Association also welcomes the clarity with which ‘Keeping it Personal’ sets out realistic and achievable scenarios for the future of primary care, a primary care in which clinicians and other healthcare workers sustain their close relationships with patients and at the same time offer a wider range of personalised care to them, closer to home.
Dr James Kingsland, Chairman of the NAPC, commented: ‘ NAPC wholeheartedly supports this report and the push to move appropriate care closer to patients, relieving hospitals of some of the unnecessary pressures on them, and minimising those risks to patients associated with repeated admissions’.
‘We shall see in the coming years’, Dr Kingsland said, ‘a primary care environment, where many patients become increasingly expert in managing their own chronic conditions; where more acute services are provided in state of the art buildings in primary care, and where patient choice underpins the entire care pathway process’.
Dr Kinsgland continued: ‘At the very core of these kaleidoscopic changes will be a guarantee of quality, which NAPC and its membership have consistently encouraged and promoted, in their drive to root out inequalities in healthcare.’
‘This is a very important report and stage in the history of primary care and I commend it to our members and others’, Dr Kingsland ended.
