NEWS
Primary Care and Emergency Departments
The Foundation publishes its report on Primary Care and Emergency
departments today. This will be followed by a commissioning guide
for PCTs and PBC groups in the near future. The report is to be
found here.
Out of Hours Review
The government has published the report from Steve Field and David
Colin-Thome on GP out of hours services. The report makes a number
of recommendations all of which have been accepted by the
government. These include a recommendation that all PCTs consider
benchmarking of their services. Another recommendation relates to
our benchmark. Work on continuing to update the benchmark is
continuing. To join the benchmark Click
Here.
The Review can be found here
Lessons From Two Benchmarks
We have produced a document summarising the results, lessons and
suggested changes that services could make. This will support other
publications following the CQC review into events in Cambridge. **
NEW ** Checklist to download to help implementation of
recommendations HERE
The document can be found here
Out of Hours Benchmark Phase 2 Workshops
We have now completed the second set of workshops associated with
the Out of Hours Benchmark first phase. The results this time
include a patient experience survey along side our data and
information analysis
The presentations from Rick and Henry and example reports can be
found here
Primary Care Foundation to Review Urgent Care Centres Across
England
The
Foundation has been selected by the Department of Health to review
urgent care centres across England. We have now selected the pilot
sites and thank all those who expressed an interest in being part
of this review.
Press Release
Press release in response to the CQC interim report
published today Click Here
Recent Articles
We
now have a page with links referencing recent articles featuring
our work
Click
here
Survey of A&E and Primary Care
We have completed the study phase of this project and are now
working on the report to the Department of
Health
GP Urgent Care
The
report of the conference held on the 25th June is to be
found here
The presentations from the event can be found here
Urgent Care in General Practice *** REPORT
PUBLISHED***
The report now published and supported by the Department of Health
is available here
There is a workshop to launch the report on the 25th of June. Full
details and booking are to be found on the Primary Care Contracting
site.
Please follow this link here