Case study summary A central-Peterborough GP practice has overhauled the way it delivers services during the COVID-19 response, investing in new online and telephony systems to keep in touch with its patients. Thistlemoor Medical Centre serves more than 27,000 patients and around four fifths of its consultations usually take place in languages other than […]
We are pleased to publish an update to the Investment and Evolution: Update to the GP contract agreement 2020/21-2023/24, agreed with British Medical Association General Practitioners Committee (GPC) yesterday (6 February 2020). We hope you can see that we have truly listened, worked with our GPC colleagues and ensured general practice, networks and our patients […]
NHS Chief Sir Simon Stevens has today announced the NHS and its staff will step up action to tackle the climate “health emergency” this year, helping prevent illness, reducing pressure on A&Es, and saving tens of thousands of lives. The initiative follows the launch of the Climate Assembly UK this week, which is discussing how the […]
The Senior Medical Advisor to the Primary Care Provider Transformation looks at what can make integrated care thrive: Health and care services across England are going through a period of transformational change, moving from silos to coordinated working, and from fragmentation to integration. To make the most of this journey together, we need to develop […]
The Chair of the British Thoracic Society’s Board calls for concerted action to reduce the health inequalities of lung disease. In England people living in the poorest areas will die many years earlier than those in the richest areas. The gap in life expectancy at birth between the least and most deprived areas was 9.4 […]
New evaluations show that improving mental health treatment for people with long term conditions such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease leads to better outcomes for patients and reduced costs for the NHS. Professor David M Clark, one of the founders of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (IAPT), examines the findings. Around 40% of […]
Hear others’ stories about how implementing the Patient Activation Measure has made a real difference in people’s lives’: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust West London CCG Working with a health and wellbeing support worker helped Victoria to better manage her condition. Now she’s more confident, is making friends and dreaming again A Prehabilitation Project Manager […]
A senior programme manager in the Primary Care and System Transformation team explains a vision for how digital technology combined a with population health management programme could be a game changer for health inequalities: Imagine a future where we could turn to technology to give us individualised advice on how to stay fit and healthy. […]
The Deputy Director of Business Intelligence at Imperial College Health Partners looks at how NHS data analysts are helping to transform health and care: They may be an army of keyboard warriors tucked away in the vaults of NHS buildings from Penzance to Carlisle and everywhere in between – but our hugely talented data analysts […]
As a GP my priority is to help patients stay well for longer or prevent them developing long term conditions, where possible. It can be difficult to do that on a daily basis with 10 minute appointments, heaps of paper work and mounting pressures. We often find ourselves fire-fighting with a relentless and increasing workload. […]