The Primary Care Foundation was formed in 2006 by the three directors (see 'About Us' below). It was set up with the explicit aim of ‘developing and spreading best practice in unscheduled, emergency and primary care in the UK’. We do this by:
We are interested in all aspects of urgent and primary care, from general practice through to A&E and hospital care. This includes working with all partners of the urgent healthcare system, either separately or together, to make improvements in patient care. We specialise in carrying out reviews, based on analysing a range of data sources and examining local practice, that make local and national recommendations. We also look for opportunities to share learning, building resources that can solve problems more widely across the NHS. This includes benchmarking performance across urgent care as a key tool for driving service improvement. We are also interested in exploring and understanding international comparisons in urgent care.
Most of our work is carried out by the three directors, but we do bring in associates with specific skills and experience when required.
As a foundation, we reinvest part of our income in initiatives that further the aims of the organisation.
The Primary Care Foundation was established to support the development of best practice in primary and urgent care. The three Directors bring different skills and perspectives to understanding primary and urgent health care - for more details click below:
We also work with a number of associates
Our latest report ‘Breaking the mould without breaking the system: new ideas and resources for clinical commissioners on the journey towards integrated 24/7 urgent care’ is now available to download CLICK HERE. It is published in partnership with the NHS Alliance and will be formally launched at a session at the NHS Alliance annual conference in Manchester on 1st December 2011.
We are working with increasing numbers of practice to improve access and urgent care in general practice. If you would like to know more about our web based tool and customised reports based on a week of practice data and join over 300 practices across the UK,please email Rick Stern at rick.stern@primarycarefoundation.co.uk
For an independent view of our work with practices on access and urgent care CLICK HERE for the article in the HSJ on 24th November 2011
4th round of the out of hours benchmark. You should be receiving final data for validation soon and the first open set of openly available results will be available from this website in the New Year.