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Press Release 15 July 2010

Customer Services team at Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust trials eManager

X-Genics, a provider of compliance software to businesses, professional groups and public-sector organisations, today announces a new suite of eManager compliance software products to be created in collaboration with the customer services team at Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust. The collaboration with the team at the west London-based NHS Trust will help make it easier to comply with regulation requirements, initially dealing with Freedom of Information requests, Complaints Handling and PALS (Patient Advice Liaison Service).
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NAPC Press Release - PMS Amendment to Regulations
16 March 2010


The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) welcomed the publication last week of the PMS amending regulations. Of particular importance is the amendment to paragraph 100 of Schedule 5 of the PMS Agreements Regulations, which provides for a contract to be terminated only in cases of breach of contract, where a breach cannot be rectified, or by giving notice. http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2010/uksi_20100578_en_1
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NAPC survey of PCTs on the impact of NHS Complaints Regulations 2009

Results of our survey

This survey is now closed, and we would like to thank all of you who participated in this survey.

The headline results of the survey are as follows:-

  • 1. It would take longer than 6 months to collate annual reports this year 12.2% (2008 - 2.8%)
  • 2. 30% took on new employees or created new posts to cope with this regulation
  • 3. 50% reported additional costs incurred; 45% reported no costs/savings; 5% expected savings on costs

 

Overall impact of legislation

75.6%               reported an increase in impact on resources

24.4%               reported no impact on resources

0%                   reported a decrease in impact on resources

 

Following the success of this survey, we will be conducting regular short surveys and would encourage you to respond as this will give us and other members a better idea on the effect of various issues in healthcare.

If you have suggestions for new topics which would make a good subject for a survey, please you're your ideas to the author.
 

Conservative Party's Manifesto

National Association of Primary Care
Press Release
5 January 2010

The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), which is an independent, non-political organisation, warmly welcomes the Conservative Party's proposals announced yesterday in its 2010 Draft Manifesto. http://www.conservatives.com/draftmanifesto/
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Heatlh Maps
iQ MEDICAL PRESS RELEASE

 


A new insight into patient health prevalence's gives PCTs and PBC clusters the ability to plan effective interventions using a unique networked mapping tool.

Keeping people healthier for longer, reducing demand for secondary care, removing inequalities and saving money requires healthcare to be targeted at specific population groups.
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The Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinical Studies Group
(SRH-CSG)

 

The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare is forming a Clinical Studies Group (CSG).The SRH-CSG will facilitate a multidisciplinary research network for research in SRH in the UK. It will provide leadership in research within the SRH community and will facilitate assessment of clinical studies which could be run
through the Reproductive Health & Childbirth National Specialty Group (RHC NSG).

In addition it will have a role in providing advice to researchers on methodology and for the organisation of approved studies.
The Faculty is looking for scientific members for the CSG and for an Executive committee which will be responsible for co-ordinating the activities of the group. The full CSG will hold two face to face meetings per year and will maintain close liaison
with the National Reproductive Health Research Network (NRHRN). All activity will be supported by an SRH-CSG administrator.

ROLE OF THE SRH-CSG
• To develop and oversee an approved portfolio of studies in SRH
• To propose and develop well designed studies including trials
• To consider studies proposed by members of the group and others
• To provide specific advice to investigators
• To ensure consumer involvement
The following constituencies should ideally be represented in its membership:


http://www.fsrh.org/admin/uploads/873_CSGadvertisement.pdf
 

Press Release: In Response to Civitas Report;

In response to yesterday's report by Civitas, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, NAPC's Chairman, Dr Johnny Marshall, commented: "Although I agree with Civitas' assessment of the NHS and the way in which it operates, I do not think it is yet doomed to failure". "The solution", he continued, "lies in the leadership of clinicians in delivering high quality patient care, tailored to local health needs".

Dr Marshall went on; "Through clinically-led commissioning and integrated care, where primary and secondary care clinicians operate in partnership, it is possible for the NHS to deliver high quality health care and at the same time extract value from every penny in the pound of tax payer's money. A clinically led NHS is its salvation!"

Dr Nav Chana added; "Integration is a solution to forthcoming common pressures and patients will become more aware of the total health care service offered by practices in the community".

31st July 2009

 
 

Managing Resources In A Cold Climate
The Way Forward

NAPC PRESS RELEASE

‘With the NHS predicted to have a reduction in resources  of up to 10 per cent in real terms, from 2010, solutions are needed which continue to deliver high quality health care and at the same time extract the value of every penny in every pound of taxpayers' money,' Mike Ramsden, Chief Executive of NAPC, commented.
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Powerful talent management application for the primary care sector

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Register as a healthcare professional HERE!

Register as practice or healthcare setting HERE!

Why are are the NAPC providing recruitment solutions?

As members of the NAPC, you will already know that we stand for best practice, support PBC collaboration and are actively involved in resolving local problems. We also understand that recruiting and managing a flexible workforce for your practice is both time consuming and expensive and we are therefore offering a solution to ease this pain. The NAPC together with 3Bluedots is promoting a new and free recruitment solution, that allows you to actively recruit a variety of locum professionals for your practise, including General Practitioners, Practise Managers and Practice Nurses. In fact you could recruit any clinical or non-clinical staff that your practice requires.
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PRESS RELEASE

NAPC introduces the eManager Complaints Handling System

An expert system for GPs allowing effortless compliance with the new NHS Complaints Regulations 2009.

NAPC is pleased to announce its partnership with X-Genics Limited, publishers of eManager, an expert system that promises to change the way medics comply with best practice and regulations. This exciting new tool provides an instant solution to the considerable confusion in the market about how best to meet legal requirements and standardise practice throughout the PCTs.
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NAPC Membership Benefit 

eManager by X-Genics Ltd

eManager is a simple to use interactive expert system that will allow any member of your staff to faithfully follow any procedure from Complaints and Staff Appraisal, to Accident Reporting, without any prior knowledge of the rules, policies or legislation.

It takes two minutes to learn, after which, you never have to train them again for any other procedure, because all the procedures work in exactly the same, easy, step by step manner.
Features: Built in letters and templates; Full audit trail of evidence; Reports at the touch of a button
Benefits:
• Easy to use “Learn as you use” step by step methodology
• Assured compliance as all procedures update automatically in line with the latest legislation
• Fully networked giving every member of staff access
• Prevents mistakes and oversight
• Doubles as a simulation and training tool
• The most cost effective system of its type
Exclusive NAPC membership benefit

NAPC membership guarantees all GPs and PCTs an exclusive discount. Always quote your membership when ordering.

 
 

  

Need Health and Fitness staff for your PCT?
 

Leisurejobs is the most successful specialist recruiter dedicated to the health, fitness and leisure industry supplying health and fitness professionals to over 200 councils, Trusts, governing bodies, schools and universities.
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Integrated Care Pilots
Programme Press Release 09.03.09

UK’s first Integrated Care pilot programme to improve patient care was announced today by NHS Surrey with Integrated Health Partners.
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Practice Based Commissioning Survey

November 2008 – January 2009

NAPC conducted a review between November 2008 and January 2009 of the current progress in relation to the implementation of Practice Based Commissioning (PBC).
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Commissioning Guides

 

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published three new commissioning guides to help the NHS in England effectively commission evidence-based care for patients. The guides cover services for:

·         accurate diagnosis of the epilepsies in adults

·         antenatal and postnatal mental health

·         peer support for women who breastfeed.

 Guides also due for publication before the end of the year will cover services for:

·         otitis media with effusion

·         patient education for people with type 2 diabetes

·         smoking cessation for people having elective surgery

·         diagnosis and initial management of stroke

·         diagnosis and initial management of transient ischaemic attack

Each commissioning guide signposts and provides topic-specific information on key clinical and service-related issues to consider during the commissioning process. They also offer an indicative benchmark of activity to help commissioners determine the level of service needed locally.

Within each commissioning guide, an interactive commissioning tool provides data for local comparison against the benchmark and resources to estimate and inform the cost of commissioning intentions. NICE has updated population, activity and tariff data presented within the 15 commissioning tools already published. The ‘one stop’ resource now brings together more recently available data and will help users review current commissioning activity and make robust commissioning decisions to improve the range and quality of health services available to patients.

The Institute aims to produce up to 10 commissioning guides a year. These will be updated annually, with new releases timed to have maximum impact on the annual commissioning process.

New tutorial
In addition, NICE has published an online tutorial on the commissioning tools to help users understand their functionality and how to get the most out of their use. The tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to use the tools and demonstrates key functions such as how to register as a user, how to create commissioning groups, and how to create and edit commissioning models. Over 750 commissioners have registered so far to use the commissioning tools. It is hoped that the online tutorial will increase registration further and encourage users to make the best use of the commissioning tools.

Dr Christine McLeod, Head of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Public Health Network and Deputy Director of Public Health – NHS Cambridgeshire: “The commissioning guides are easy to navigate with clear information. The commissioning guide on cardiac rehabilitation services proved invaluable to me as the assumptions for calculating the benchmark cardiac rehabilitation population were justified, and because the information on current and future service costing is itemised it is easy to understand what is contributing to overall costs and to replace with local information where available. The information from the tool is also useful for making a case for prioritisation when presenting at Professional Executive Committee (PEC).”

Simon Banks, Senior Specialised Commissioning Manager, North West Specialised Commissioning Team said: “To deliver world-class health care systems and services, the NHS requires world-class commissioners. Commissioners need to be capable, confident and knowledgeable custodians of health care systems, and able to identify and utilise the latest evidence in regard to the services they commission. The NICE commissioning guides provide commissioners with a valuable tool for meeting the challenge of evidence-based commissioning and systems management, offering advice and guidance throughout the commissioning cycle.”    

To access the guides go to: www.nice.org.uk/CommissioningGuides.  Ideas for future topic specific guides can be emailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  
 

For more information call Kristin O’Leary on 0161 870 3138 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 
 

GMS Contract Arrangements

 


The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) welcomes the agreement, announced today, reached between the General Practice Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association and the Department of Health (DH).
 
'It is imperative', Dr Johnny Marshall, the new Chairman of NAPC, commented, 'that primary care contractual arrangements support the development of local health services that are both high in quality and patient responsive'.  'This agreement signals, in my view, a further move toward providing incentives for practices to do just that'.
 
Dr Marshall continued: 'It is important that quality measures applied to clinical care should be judged by their impact on supporting the delivery of best practice, rather than the ease with which they can be measured.  There, inevitably, will be some "winners and losers" amongst practices.  But, if this agreement delivers higher quality care, coupled with greater responsiveness for patients at a local level then both patients and practices are beneficiaries'.
 
NAPC's Chief Executive, Mike Ramsden, added: 'There will inevitably be some uncertainty amongst the 40% of practices, who hold PMS contracts, as to how some of these changes will apply to them at local level'.  'NAPC's position on PMS remains unchanged', Mr Ramsden explained.  'PMS contracts are a matter for local negotiation between those PMS practices and PCTs.  However, NAPC will be working with the DH to provide support to PMS practices and PCTs to ensure the best possible understanding of how these changes to the GMS contract might be applied to PMS contracts, with a view to supporting the delivery of sustained, high quality, patient responsive health services, tailored to meet local needs'.

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Dr Johnny Marshall, NAPC Chairman, Telephone Number: 
020 7636 7228

Mr Mike Ramsden, NAPC CEO, Telephone Number:
020 7636 7228

About National Association of Primary Care:

The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) is a non-political, non-profit-making organisation representing and supporting the interests of all its members, both individuals and organisations working in or with primary care. It also offers support through associate membership to those bodies, which provide services to primary care or have other health related interests.