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 […]

Retired church minister Clive Jones is just one of 160,000 people at risk of developing diabetes in Kent and Medway.  But thanks to a diabetes prevention programme the Staplehurst resident has a new lease of life. The 69 year old was diagnosed with heart palpitations and high blood sugar levels last summer. His GP advised […]

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 Managing Closed Lists section.

NHS Improvement’s gifts and hospitality logs for the board and executive committee.

A primary care pharmacist shares her experience of developing a self care approach beyond the precincts of NHS England: It all started because I spoke up at a directorate away day in Milton Keynes CCG. I spoke up because I believe that self care should be central to all that we do.  Whether we are […]

The co-Chair of the Self Care Fund looks at how the charity is striving to embed self care in everyday life: During Self Care Week, which runs from 13 to 19 November, the Self Care Forum endeavours to raise awareness about the benefits of self care, and address the key question: What is self care? […]