General Practice in England

"This briefing paper provides general background for Members and their staff on NHS primary medical services provided by general practitioners (GPs) in England. It gives an overview of commissioning arrangements as well as information on changes to GP contracts and funding arrangements."

General Practice in England
Commons Briefing papers CBP-7194
E Blow, T Powell
May 2015

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Medicines Optimisation Peer Review Programme

"The aim of Medicines Optimisation Peer Reviews is to influence prescribers and their decision making processes to ensure evidence-based, safe, cost effective prescribing ensuring optimal clinical outcomes for Wigan patients."

Medicines Optimisation Peer Review Programme - engaging GP practices to deliver medicines optimisation and implement NICE guidance
Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
NICE Shared Learning
March 2015

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Framework for responding to CQC inspections of GP practices

"From October 2014, the CQC will begin to roll out their new inspection regime to inspect and rate every GP practice in England by April 2016. Practices will be inspected across five key questions, considering the extent to which they are safe, effective, responsive, caring and well-led. They will be rated in one of four categories; outstanding; good; requires improvement; or inadequate."

Framework for responding to CQC inspections of GP practices
October 2014
Commissioning Operations, NHS England

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Improving diabetes care through examining, advising, and prescribing

"We will conduct a two-armed cluster randomised controlled trial in 44 general practices in the North East of England to evaluate a theory-based behaviour change intervention. We will target improvement in six underperformed clinical behaviours highlighted in quality standards for type 2 diabetes"

Improving diabetes care through examining, advising, and prescribing (IDEA): protocol for a theory-based cluster randomised controlled trial of a multiple behaviour change intervention aimed at primary healthcare professionals
J Presseau, G Hawthorne, FF Sniehotta, N Steen, JJ Francis, M Johnston, J Mackintosh, JM Grimshaw, E Kaner, M Elovainio, M Deverill, T Coulthard, H Brown, M Hunter, MP Eccles
Implementation Science, 2014, 9: 61

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Securing excellence in GP IT services

"This document sets out the operating arrangements for the delivery of GP IT services across England. It outlines clear accountability, responsibility and financing support for general practice in England to receive high quality IT support services."

Securing excellence in GP IT services: operating model, 2nd edition (2014-16)
NHS England
April 2014

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Qualitative assessment of visitor and migrant use of the NHS in England

"These 2 reports, commissioned by the Department of Health, provide evidence of the impact overseas visitors and migrants are having in GP practices and NHS hospitals."

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Care.data: guide for GP practices

"Care.data will make increased use of information from medical records with the intention of improving healthcare, for example by ensuring that timely and accurate data are made available to NHS commissioners and providers so that they can better design integrated services for patients."

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Person-based resource allocation

This research summary describes what lies behind the Department of Health's new approach to setting target allocations for hospital care to commissioning general practices.

Person-based resource allocation: new approaches to estimating commissioning budgets for GP practices
M Bardsley, J Dixon
December 2011

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