Pharmacists are your medicines’ expert
In her latest guest blog, Lyndsey Stanley, Clinical Pharmacist, celebrates World Pharmacists' Day on 25th September 2018, a global annual event designed to promote the pharmacists’ role in improving health. The theme for this year’s event is, ‘Pharmacists are your medicines’ expert’. In this article we look back at the history of pharmacy and examine the evolution of pharmacy in the primary care sector. Pharmacy in Britain takes its roots from the old spice traders whose goods included crude medicines and who evolved into Apothecaries in the thirteenth [...]
Does bigger equal better when it comes to General Practice?
In his third guest blog, management consultant Scott McKenzie examines the potential reasons for forming a larger hub or GP federation before you make the change and the importance of the leadership role in making the at scale model deliver the benefits you envisaged. The short answer to the question in the title is no. It is not guaranteed that merging, forming a hub of 30,000 to 50,000 patients or developing a GP federation will equal better. Scott Mckenzie Independent Management Consultant “Five [...]
New Care Models – rules for GP engagement
In his second blog for us , independent management consultant Scott McKenzie looks into the questions around new models of care: Following on from my last blog on New Models of Care, I was asked if I could share the 6 questions I use to engage General Practice, and if I had examples of this in action. Scott Mckenzie Independent Management Consultant Six questions For those leading the development of New Models of Care you need to stop and take time to ask: [...]
Stress in the NHS is here to stay – a strategy for coping
Whilst there are very few reports about the prevalence of mental ill health within the NHS, we do know that doctors, nurses and many others in the healthcare profession face mental health risk factors, both occupational and individual. Specialist services developed specifically for interventions for doctors with mental health problems tend to show promising results, but lack of anonymity prevents many from seeking the help they need. A very recent paper published in JAMA Intern Med. said: This meta-analysis provides evidence that physician burnout may jeopardise patient care; reversal [...]
New Models of Care
With the introduction of New Models of Care for the provision of services at scale through, for example, an Integrated Care Systems (ICS), Multispecialty Community Provider (MCP), Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), and Accountable Care Organisations (ACO) - all of which include the Primary Care Home (http://www.napc.co.uk/primary-care-home) - it is essential that General Practice takes the time to explore its future model and how locally you want to work “at scale”, which is a requirement within all the aforementioned New Models of Care. The alternative is being told [...]
PMA Making Positive Changes in GP Practices with Training Business
Primary care workforce development specialist has seen a three-fold increase in uptake of its training workshops and strong growth in diploma courses across the UK Primary care workforce development specialist The Practice Managers Association (PMA) is making positive changes in GP practices, reporting a strong start to 2018, having seen three-fold annualised growth in the uptake of its training workshops over the last six months and the launch of six new diploma courses. The PMA provides a number of workshops for primary care workers across a wide range of subjects from [...]
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