The Policy Book for Primary Medical Services provides commissioners of GP services with the context, information and tools to commission and manage GP contracts. These are the annexes for the Adverse Events (e.g. flood fire) section.

The Policy Book for Primary Medical Services provides commissioners of GP services with the context, information and tools to commission and manage GP contracts. These are the annexes for the Police Incident Reporting – The Home Office Counting Rules section.

The Policy Book for Primary Medical Services provides commissioners of GP services with the context, information and tools to commission and manage GP contracts. These are the annexes for the GP Patient Registration Standard Operating Principles for Primary Medical Care section.

The Policy Book for Primary Medical Services provides commissioners of GP services with the context, information and tools to commission and manage GP contracts. These are the annexes for the The GMS/PMS Contract Regulations section.

NHS England has announced that thousands of people are set to access diabetes and obesity prevention services through the touch of a button following the launch of the digital stream of the diabetes prevention programme. Dr Amar Ali, GP lead for Diabetes for Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire, explains more. Over the last five years […]

49 year old Christine Jackson from Leeds discovered she was at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes after a routine blood test. She received a letter from her GP inviting her to take part in the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP); a face-to-face behavioural change programme with a focus on education on […]

The Greater Lincolnshire partnership has been making referrals to the NHS DPP as a wave one site since July 2016. In this time the partnership has grown from strength to strength with 5,874 referrals being made by almost 90% of its practices since launching. Up to September 2017, the partnership has had 107 groups started […]

Boat builder Kevin Enticknap thought he was reasonably fit and healthy but when he went to his doctor with chest pains his GP detected high sugar levels in his blood. She referred him to the local Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention programme and after just four sessions Kevin had lost 9lbs and could bend down […]

79 year old retired police officer Peter Stevens was struggling with shortness of breath and numbness in his feet before his GP detected high sugar levels in his blood, advised him to make some lifestyle changes and referred him to the local Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention programme. In the first five weeks of the […]