Sharing health information: toward better, safer care

"Having shared access to patients’ health information means health professionals in primary care – such as GPs, pharmacists and community nurses – can work more closely and effectively in multi-disciplinary teams with doctors, nurses and specialists in hospitals."

Sharing health information: toward better, safer care
Ministry of Health, New Zealand
November 2013

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The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation

"Effective decision-making requires good advice, and that depends on informed use of evidence both in developing policy and in evaluating its effect once implemented."

The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation
Office of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee
September 2013

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Primary care for the 21st century

"Although independent practitioner associations in New Zealand have not held budgets on the scale of that planned for clinical commissioning groups in England, they nevertheless demonstrate the significant potential of organised general practice to enable innovation and expansion in the local provision of care."

Primary care for the 21st century
R Thorlby, J Smith, P Barnett, N Mays
Nuffield Trust
September 2012

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