Improving general practice - phase one report

"This report focuses on the central role we want general practice to play in wider systems of primary care, and it describes our ambition for greater collaboration with CCGs in the commissioning of general practice. Transformational change will be led locally, but we outline the work underway nationally to support it."

Improving general practice - A call to action: phase one report
B Dyson
NHS England
March 2014

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Patients first: improving access to GP practices

"The purpose of this report is to expand on a previous report, Patient Power, using research from GP practices in urban and rural settings in Scotland to illustrate that the way GP practices operate can vary considerably from whether they operate open surgeries to extended hours, have the ability to process repeat prescriptions online to whether they even have a website."

Patients first: improving access to GP practices
B Thomson, G Mawdsley, A Payne
Reform Scotland
August 2012

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