Improving Primary Care - Latest Guidance and Evidence

This article provides a quick overview of the latest guidance and evidence on current issues such as smoking, sexual health, health inequalities, mental health, obesity, substance abuse, women’s health and more. It also includes links to resources and reports on improving primary care. The article is relevant to anyone interested in healthcare, particularly those involved in primary care.

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A quick overview of the latest guidance and evidence on current issues such as smoking, sexual health, health inequalities,
mental health, obesity, substance abuse, women’s health – in fact anything that you ask for!
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Department of Health
Plans to improve primary care
Primary care: working in partnership
Seven day, 8am – 8pm, GP access for hard working
people
NHS England
General Practice Forward View
Improving general practice – a call to action
Primary Care Co-Commissioning
Chapter 3: What will the future look like? New models
of care (FYFW)
New care models – vanguard sites
Prime Minister's challenge fund : improving access to
general practice. First evaluation report : October
2015
NHS services, seven days a week forum : summary of
initial findings
New Care Models: vanguards- developing a blueprint
for the future of NHS and care services
Parliamentary sources
Primary care under strain and struggling with rising
demand
NHS Evidence
A planned primary care workforce for Wales
Our plan for a primary care service for Wales up to
March 2018
Understanding primary care co-commissioning:
uptake, scope of activity and process of change
Moving services out of hospital : joining up general
practice and community services?
In-depth review of the general practitioner workforce -
final report
Get well soon : reimagining place-based health
HMIC
The organisation and delivery of health improvement
in general practice and primary care : a scoping study.
Peckham, Stephen. Falconer, Jane. Gillam, Steve
Health Services and Delivery Research 2015; 3 (29):
(June 2015)
Patient-reported areas for quality improvement in
general practice : a cross-sectional survey.
Waller, Amy. Carey, Mariko. Mazza, Danielle
British Journal of General Practice 2015; 65 (634):
240-241 (May 2015)
Evidence-based healthcare and quality improvement.
Gillam, Steve.
Quality in Primary Care, Vol. 22, no. 3, 2014, p 125-
132
Healthcare system performance improvement : A
comparison of key policies in seven high-income

Access to General Practice in England
Primary care
The King's Fund
Understanding pressures in general practice
Primary care models: case studies
The Highland way: what can we learn from the
Scottish NHS?
Bringing together physical and mental health. A new
frontier for integrated care
Improving quality in the English NHS. A strategy for
action
Will the new GP contract improve care for patients?
Supporting community providers to manage and
improve quality
Quality in community health services
Transforming primary care
Change needed to realise the potential of community
services, says new report by The King’s Fund
Community services: How they can transform care
Improving the quality of care in general practice
How good is the quality of general practice in
England?
Nuffield Trust
Meeting need or fuelling unnecessary demand?
Understanding the impact of improved access to
primary care
Health Foundation
Improving safety in primary care
NHS Alliance
Making time in general practice : freeing GP capacity
by reducing bureaucracy and avoidable consultations,
managing the interface with hospitals and exploring
new ways of working
countries.
Gauld, Robin.
Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol.
28, no. 1, 2014, p 2-20
Understanding quality improvement at scale in general
practice : a qualitative evaluation of a COPD
improvement programme.
Marshall, Martin. Mountford, James. Gamet, Kirsten
British Journal of General Practice 2014; 64 (629):
619-620 (December 2014)
Primary care quality and safety systems in the English
National Health Service : a case study of a new type
of primary care provider.
Baker, Richard. Willars, Janet. MacNicol, Sarah
Journal of Health Research and Policy 2014; 19 (1):
34-41 (January 2014)
Interprofessional collaboration in primary health care :
a review of facilitators and barriers perceived by
involved actors.
Supper, I.. Catala, O.. Lustman, M.
Journal of Public Health 2015; 37 (4): 716-727
(December 2015)
Integration and continuity of primary care : polyclinics
and alternatives : a patient-centred analysis of how
organisation constrains care co-ordination.
Sheaff, Rod. Halliday, Joyce. Øvretveit, John
Health Services and Delivery Research 2015; 3 (35):
(August 2015)
Knowing me, knowing you : inter-professional working
between general practice and social care.
Mangan, Catherine. Miller, Robin. Ward, Carol
Journal of Integrated Care 2015; 23 (2): 62-73
New conversations between old players? : the
relationship between general practice and social care.
Glasby, Jon. Miller, Robin
Journal of Integrated Care 2015; 23 (2): 42-52
What primary care teams in Devon believe pharmacy
can deliver.
Bearman, David. Taylor, Sue. Stone, Mark
Pharmaceutical Journal 2014; 292 (7806): 433 (19
April 2014)
Integrated paediatric training to improve child health.
Macaulay, Chloe
Perspectives in Public Health 2014; 134 (2): 65-66
(March 2014)
Integration of services or empire building?
Iacobucci, Gareth
BMJ 2014; 348 (7948): 16-17 (8 March 2014)

We are primary care
Deloitte
Primary Care: Today and Tomorrow. Improving
general practice by working differently
How can health and social care be brought together?
Demand for integration series: Issue 2
Reform
Who cares? the future of general practice
Going with change : allowing new models of health
care to be provided for NHS patients
Royal College of General Practitioners
Inquiry into patient centred care in the 21st century
Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists
International Women’s Day 2016: Joining up care in
maternal mental health
Gofal
GPs and charity call for sustained focus on improving
primary mental health care in Wales
Blogs and other news
How does dental care fit into the new models of care?
(HSMC, May 2016)
Notable early successes as vanguards get serious
about prevention (NHS Confederation, May 2016)
Old problems, new models (BMJ, May 2016)
RWT and GPs working together on pioneering
healthcare pilot project (Royal Wolverhampton NHS
Trust, May 2016)
GPs join up with New Cross Hospital (Healthwatch
Wolverhampton)
Reforms needed to relieve 'unsustainable pressure' on
primary care (National Health Executive, April 2016) –
the Health Select Committee report is available here
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