This guide is mainly aimed at PCG/T boards as they attempt to address the core government objectives of reducing inequalities and tackling racism. It should particularly benefit those with small ethnic populations, although those PCG/Ts with large ethnic populations, where there has been a history of attempting to meet local ...
This report provides a snapshot of user and public involvement within primary care groups (PCGs) in London, based on the views of their chief executives and lay members. It is the first output of a two year study conducted by the King's Fund Primary Care Programme which will describe and ...
This report presents the findings from the first phase of a two-year research project comprising six case studies of how primary care groups and trusts (PCG/Ts) are carrying out their health improvement role. Its purpose is to record the development of the health improvement role by the sites in their ...
Total purchasing was the first major 'internal market' policy initiative to be extensively evaluated by the Department of Health and Scottish Office. This report draws together the main evidence from the evaluation in order to inform the development of the new primary care organisations in the NHS, which came into ...
Primary care groups (PCGs) offer new opportunities for partnerships between health and social care. There is now widespread support for collaboration in order to achieve better integrated care for people with both short-term and continuing care needs. But there is also recognition that this is a complex task. As they ...
The evaluation of the Total Purchasing Pilots (TPPs) provides important lessons for the development of the new primary care organisations envisaged in the English, Welsh and Scottish NHS white papers. Despite originating in a very different context, total purchasing was essentially about groups of practices working together to develop services ...
This report aims to describe the ways in which the structure, role and impact of TPPs may be instructive to PCGs. Practical illustrations are used to demonstrate how particular changes in services were achieved in the context of local conditions, providing useful examples for PCGs. English PCGs are the main ...
Policy changes in health and social care present new opportunities for primary care to work in partnership with others to improve provision for people with mental health problems. Policy connections between mental health services, primary and community care were not always made effectively in the past and attention to implementation ...
The aim of this work is to support primary care groups (PCGs) in developing primary care in London. It is directed at all those involved in primary care development , including members of PCGs, trusts and health authorities. Primary care development is taken here to mean the constellation of ideas, ...