The journey towards integrated 24/7 urgent care – breaking the mould without breaking the system
Workshop at the NHS Alliance Annual Conference in Manchester, 1st December 2011
Rick Stern
Clinical Variation in Urgent Care
Workshop at the NHS Alliance Annual Conference in Manchester, 30th November 2011
David Carson
Clinical Commissioning and the future of urgent and emergency care
8th November 2011
NHS Direct and NHS Alliance Workshop, 22nd February 2011, Central London
Rick Stern
April 2011, Manchester
David Carson
Informing the Intentions of New GP Commissioners of Urgent Care
Advanced Health & Care annual conference, 25th May 2011
Rick Stern
Advanced Health & Care Annual Conference, 25th May 2011
Rick Stern & Chris Carter
Pulse Conference, 15th February 2011
Henry Clay
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
The benchmark of out of hours services has been published. To interact with the data and download reports CLICK HERE. To read the overall analysis of the findings CLICK HERE. The benchmark covers more than two thirds of the PCT areas in England and, for the first time, participants have agreed that the data should be published in a way that allows individual services to be identified. To read the press release CLICK HERE.
Rick Stern is to take up the role of Chief Executive of the NHS Alliance from 16 April 2012. He will still be working for half the week as a Director of the Primary Care Foundation
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 April 2012.