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The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) welcomes the current debate taking place about the development of polyclinics, which it regards as healthy and essential in the rolling out of any proposed policy.
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On the morning of 16 April 2008, NAPC conducted a rapid response survey of its syndicate, which sought to establish views on the merits of a BMA publicity campaign supporting medics, following a report in the press that it was considering raiding its ‘war chest’ to launch such a campaign.
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Rapid Response Survey
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This year at its 2008 annual conference, NAPC is delighted to announce the restoration of its prestigious awards ceremony.
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The Practice Manager of the Year Awards, brought to you by Williams Medical Supplies in partnership with the National Association of Primary Care, is specifically defined to recognise and reward exceptional performance from Practice Managers.
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On the evening of 5 March 2008, NAPC conducted a rapid response survey of practices and PCTs to establish their views on the current criticism of GP contract, in light of the government’s projected £1.8 billion underspend for the financial year ending 31 March 2008.
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Launch of ‘Moving Beyond Sponsorship’ Guidance and Best Practice Toolkit on joint working between the NHS and pharmaceutical companies
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On the evening of 28th February, immediately after the release of the National Audit Office damaging report on the 2003 GP contract, NAPC conducted a rapid response survey of practices, which sought to establish whether any new services had been established into practices, following the introduction of that contract.
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On Wednesday 27th February a group of NAPC member, Practice Managers, had a meeting with Ben Bradshaw, MP, Minister of State for Health Services. The key points of the meeting are as follows:
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On the evening of 4 February, NAPC conducted a rapid response survey of practices, which sought to establish the frequency of general practice consultations, if any, because of the failure or lack of dental services.
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Despite recent announced changes, the Chancellor's controversial plan to scrap capital gains tax taper relief with effect from 6th April 2008 appears to still apply to the sale of GP Surgery premises.
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NAPC has a membership of around 4,000 practices from which volunteers provide a rapid response to topical issues by joining a syndicated e-mail system designed to produce comments/data and opinion of subject of the day affecting healthcare and healthcare related matters.
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Celebrating the 10th NAPC Anniversary and the 60th Anniversary of the NHS, this event promises once again to be the most prestigious in the primary care calendar.
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The Practice Manager of The Year Awards, sponsored by Williams Medical Supplies in partnership with the National Association of Primary Care, recognise and reward exceptional performance from Practice Managers.
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NAPC Membership Offer
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Healthcare Commission's State of Healthcare Report NAPC welcomes the Healthcare Commission s State of Healthcare Report, which provides a very comprehensive assessment of the NHS and private sector provision for the NHS for 2006/7.
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‘The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) very much welcomes the Audit Commission Report ‘Putting Commissioning Into Practice’ and supports many of its findings, which reflect’, its Chairman, Dr James Kingsland, said ‘the experiences of the majority of our members’.
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This year’s conference was a great success. NAPC would like to thank everyone that supported the event, in particular the sponsors and exhibitors, profiles of which can be found via this section.
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The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) very much welcomes the appointment of Dr James Kingsland, its Chairman, to Lord Darzi’s review board. The announcement was made by Ben Bradshaw, Minister of State for Health at NAPC’s Annual Conference, held on 17th and 18th of October 2007. Mr Bradshaw, MP confirmed that the appointment of Dr Kingsland would significantly strengthen Lord Darzi’s board.
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Thank you very much for inviting me to your conference. I’d like to begin by congratulating all those who have helped to make it a success. I have been impressed by your enthusiasm and dedication to improving services for patients, particularly through your support of practice based commissioning policy and implementation.
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NAPC very much welcomes the outcome for the NHS of the Chancellor’s comprehensive spending review, announced yesterday, with spending set to rise to £110bn by 2010 from the current £90bn.
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The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC)formally announced the retirement of its Chief Executive Officer, Eric McCullough, who has held the post since 2000.
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NHS Choices, (www.nhs.uk) is planning to radically improve the quality of primary care data available to the public on the website and is seeking feedback on its plans to provide GP practices with the ability to edit their own entries by October (practice based editing, PBE) in October.
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A new university-accredited course has been launched to help managers and clinicians lead the way to improved NHS services. The course, which is free of charge to those working within health and social care, is fully supported by the Department of Health and has been designed in response to the need for commissioners to improve their capability and capacity.
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As part of the Improvement Foundation’s Practice Based Commissioning (PBC) programme we are running a series of PBC webcasts during July and August 2007. The webcasts will provide participants with a 45 minute interactive training event in which prominent speakers will present their views on the current issues facing practitioners in implementing PBC.
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Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today unveiled a new website, NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk), which aims to personalise healthcare and provide information that will allow patients to make meaningful choices about when and where to receive their treatment.
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Diabetes UK are looking for applications from PCTs, Diabetes Networks or Consortia of Practice Based Commissioners who would like to pilot the Year of Care for diabetes.
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There are three keys factors governing the development of Practice Based Commissioning (PBC), namely the culture of individual Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), the quality of clinical leadership and having the right tools to make it happen.
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Following the publication last week of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) plan to close the purchaser-provider divide, the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) said it deplored any attempts to influence a move away from the purchaser/provider split, both in the National Health Service (NHS) and in the Department of Health.
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In this edition, find out about pharmaceutical representatives and the requirements of the ABPI Code…
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In this edition, find out what prescribing information pharmaceutical companies are required to provide under the ABPI Code...
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Practice based commissioning (PBC) is a key reform for the NHS. It is also an important focus of the Audit Commission's local audit work and national studies on financial management in the NHS. A short booklet was published in June 2006 , Early Lessons in Implementing Practice Based Commissioning, which covered high-level issues associated with implementing PBC. This was the first in a series of products that the Commission intends to produce on PBC to monitor and support its implementation.
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ABPI Code Awareness Day is taking place on 15 May 2007 and the NAPC is supporting this initiative. On this day, more than 50 pharmaceutical companies are allocating time for sales representatives and others who have contact with external stakeholders to promote the Code to customers, doctors, pharmacists, nurses and NHS management as part of their regular programme of calls. In addition, articles will be running in the medical, pharmaceutical and nursing press throughout May.
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It has been a turbulent year. PCTs and SHAa have been through challenging times. There have been some surprising changes in personnel in the NHS. Whatever the final dramatis personae of the new organisations, there is no doubt they will be leaner and meaner. Deficits have reared their ugly head in a major way, demonstrating that throwing money into an unreformed NHS does not work.
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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.
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The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) is delighted to see the list of successful social enterprise pathfinders announced today*, many of whom are members of the Association.
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Williams Medical Supplies and NAPC's Practice Manager of The Year Awards 2007
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NAPC's Chairman and President wrote to PMS Practices, further to comments made by the Chairman of the GPC on PMS.
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New plans to boost the number of GP practices directly commissioning health services were published today by Health Minister Lord Warner.
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One of the UK's leading providers of flu vaccination services for public and private organisations is offering a special package to help fill the current supply gap.
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At the 2006 Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), a powerful executive committee of key players in the field of primary care was appointed for the following 12 months. Dr James Kingsland was returned as Chairman for a further year.
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Exam Editor/Exam Question Writer required
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Early bird discount Register before 31st July 06 to receive 10% off the delegate rate.
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National Association of Primary Care's response to NHS deficits.
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Following the publication last week of a joint statement from NAPC and the Department of Health (DH), NAPC wishes to clarify the position further for its member PMS practices as well as PCTs and SHAs.
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At a recent meeting, the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) sought clarification with the Department of Health on behalf of its membership, over concerns about the local interpretation by some PCTs in implementing guidance on non-GMS contracting arrangements for 2006/7. As a result, the Department of Health and NAPC have issued the following joint statement:
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Guidance of Non-GMS Contracting Arrangements for 2006/7
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Implementing PBC...
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Dr James Kingsland, Chairman of the National Association of Primary Care, today welcomed the publication of the NHS Operating Framework for 2006/07 by the Department of Health.
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This document sets out the agenda for the NHS for 2006/07. It is designed to help lead health services and health improvements locally by clearly setting out the framework of priorities, expectations and rules to be operated within for 2006/07.
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The Health Foundation has announced the launch of a new £2.4 million award scheme aiming to improve the quality of primary care. Through the Engaging with Quality in Primary Care award scheme the Foundation will support up to six projects that aim to engage clinicians in achieving measurable and sustainable improvements in clinical quality.
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Why Practice Based Commissioning?
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A special meeting of NAPC was held in response to the Department of Health’s publication ‘Commissioning a Patient-led NHS’
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The National Association of Primary Care (The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has been commissioned by the Department of Health to provide dedicated support to practices, from 1st November 2005 for practice based commissioning.
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