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Mental health and primary care networks: understanding the opportunities
This report, published jointly by The King's Fund and the Centre for Mental Health, explores the opportunities the emergence of primary care networks creates for improving the support and treatment provided to people with mental health needs.
By Chris Naylor et al - 23 July 2020
How to build effective teams in general practice
This guide draws on insights from our research, policy analysis and leadership practice to outline ways in which practices can create and sustain effective teams, as they come together to form primary care networks.
By Beccy Baird et al - 9 January 2020
The public and the NHS: what's the deal?
In March 2018 The King's Fund and Ipsos MORI carried out a series of discussion events with the public to explore people's views on the relationship between the public and the NHS. This report sets out the findings.
By Harry Evans et al - 25 June 2018
Community pharmacy explained
Community pharmacy is a critical part of primary care in England, but its role and relationship to the wider NHS is often poorly understood. This explainer looks at the community pharmacy sector in England, explaining how pharmacies are contracted and funded, the types of services they provide and future trends in the sector.
By Beccy Baird et al - 16 December 2020
Primary care networks explained
A key part of the NHS long-term plan, primary care networks (PCNs) will bring general practices together to work at scale. But what are they? How are they funded and held accountable? And what difference will they make? Beccy Baird explains the latest form of GP collaboration.
By Beccy Baird et al - 20 November 2020
The updated GP contract explained
NHS England and the British Medical Association's general practice committee have negotiated an update to the five-year GP contract framework published in January 2019. This explainer outlines the changes and explains what they mean for the future of general practice.
What is social prescribing?
Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services to support their health and wellbeing. But does it work? And how does it fit in with wider health and care policy?
By David Buck et al - 4 November 2020
Technology and innovation for long-term health conditions
It has become received wisdom that the NHS struggles to adopt digital innovation, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, many NHS providers have moved services online at astonishing pace. Ben Collins looks at four digital innovations in health services from the UK and the Nordic countries.
By Ben Collins - 3 August 2020
GP funding and contracts explained
This explainer sets out how general practices are contracted and paid in England, looking at the services they are contracted to deliver, and the different streams of funding they receive.
By Jake Beech et al - 11 June 2020 9-minute read
GPs condemn new specifications for primary care networks
This article was first published on the BMJ website. General practices have been working together in primary care networks (PCNs) for more than a year, but now growing numbers of GPs are threatening to pull out of PCNs and the associated contract. Richard Murray explains how this situation has unfolded and suggests some potential solutions.
By Richard Murray - 27 January 2020
Network contract directed enhanced service: draft outline service specifications
The urgent action needed to stabilise general practice, by addressing workload and workforce issues, raises important questions around the timing, implementation and pace of these new service specifications even though the overall direction they set out is the right one.
Why can't I get a doctor's appointment? Solving the complex issue of GP access
Public satisfaction with general practice is lower now than it has ever been, while the number of people reporting difficulties in booking appointments continues to grow. We run through the proposed solutions to issues around GP access and consider their potential effectiveness.
The politics of health: what do the public think about the NHS?
As we head towards the 2019 general election, what are patient and public perceptions of the NHS? And have the public's views changed since the country last went to the ballot box?
By Dan Wellings et al - 3 October 2019
Talking leadership: breakthrough conversations
We talk to Patricia Boyle, a senior consultant here at The King's Fund, about why important conversations sometimes become stuck and what helps and about our new programme on this topic, Leading breakthrough conversations.
By Tricia Boyle - 6 August 2019
Insights from the spread of the primary care home
This report was commissioned by the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) and explores the factors that contributed to the spread of the primary care home.
By Durka Dougall et al - 19 June 2019
Measuring general practice productivity
With a rising workload, general practice in England is under significant pressure. This study developed and tested a measure of effectiveness in general practice known as the general practice effectiveness tool.
By Jeremy Dawson et al - 21 February 2019
Caution needed over ambitions for new primary care networks
It is critical that primary care networks are not set up to fail by taking on too many tasks too quickly.
By Beccy Baird et al - 18 January 2019
Shaping the future of general practice: a report for the Royal College of General Practitioners
The report examines trends in health policy in the four nations of the UK, particularly as it might affect general practice. It considers what patients and GPs want from general practice and what general practice might look like in the future, building on the literature review and our interviews with system leaders.
Talking leadership: learning to lead as an NHS consultant
Dr Kin Yee Shiu, a consultant in nephrology and acute/general medicine at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, talks about her experience of our Leadership for consultants programme and the challenge of leading change.
By Dr Kin Yee Shiu - 27 November 2018
It's time for a new deal between the public and the NHS
The 70th anniversary of the NHS is an opportunity to reflect on its enduring popularity and to ask what people can expect from the service and what their obligations are in return, says Chris Ham.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 5 July 2018