Health Creation Alliance news:
- We will be holding our AGM on 13 July at the Coin Street Conference Centre. If you are a member and would like to attend please RSVP to Debbie: debbie@life-logistics.co.uk
- Health Creation Alliance, in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Housing, is offering a Masterclass Programme in delivering place-based health and care for a limited number of health and housing professionals working within the same locality to learn, innovate and implement new services together. This fast-track programme will run from October 2016 to July 2017 and is open to CCGs, GP federations, providers and public health. Find more here
Press releases:
- Health Creation Alliance responds to Brexit. Health Creation Alliance
- Collaborate and Primary Care Leadership. Health Creation Alliance
- Health Creation Alliance calls for community pharmacy ‘forward view’. Health Creation Alliance
Health Creation Alliance coverage:
- #GPnews: Patients in favour of an end to GP box ticking – Patients have backed the BMA’s call for more GPs, longer appointments and an end to ‘box ticking’ to allow GPs to spend more time with them. Pulse
- We need to encourage nurses into general practice – Around 25 years ago nurse leaders warned about the demographic time bomb in practice nursing. These messages were not heeded and the problem is now fully impacting on general practice at a time of unprecedented demand – one in eight practice nurse positions are vacant Pulse has reported. Pulse
- Community pharmacies should be put at heart of care delivery – Health Creation Alliance – Community pharmacies should be put at the heart of delivering care, the new NHS Alliance has said in a new report. National Health Executive
- Community pharmacy strategy needed for integration– A new paper, published by Health Creation Alliance, Supporting the Development of Community Pharmacy Practice within Primary Care argues that community pharmacy in England, with approaching 11,700 pharmacies, represents health on the high street and within our communities. Care Management Matters
- GPs urged to redirect more work to pharmacies to ease workload – GPs should direct patients to community pharmacists for on-going care after an initial diagnosis, to help reduce their workload and make better use of pharmacies, according to an NHS Alliance report. GPonline
- Strategy for community pharmacy needed to deliver its full potential – The NHS needs a new model of care for community pharmacy to realise its full potential as an integral component of the primary care team, argues the Health Creation Alliance in a new position paper. OnMedica
- NHS Alliance “disappointed” at lack of pharmacy-led vanguards – A new paper published today (22 June 2016) by the healthcare organisation argues that community pharmacy in England represents health on the high street and the first port of call for many patients within local communities. Primary Care Today
- NHS Alliance calls for pharmacy ‘forward view’ – A new strategy for community pharmacy is essential to realising its full potential at the heart of community care, claims a report by Health Creation Alliance. PharmaTimes
- NHS Alliance calls for better recognition of clinical pharmacist role in ‘high street pharmacy’ – The NHS should support clinical pharmacist roles in community pharmacies as well as at GP practices, the Health Creation Alliance has proposed. Good Health Suite
- GP leader appointed clinical champion for social prescribing – GP and former NHS Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon has been appointed as NHS England’s national clinical champion for social prescribing, to advocate schemes that will help patients who are struggling with housing, debt and even loneliness. Pulse
Top news stories:
- Brexit ‘will make NHS staff shortages worse’ – The NHS Confederation said doctors and nurses from Europe may be put off accepting jobs after the referendum. If that happened the NHS could face some major problems, it said. BBC
- GP practice closures ‘at record levels’, GPC chair tells BMA annual conference – GP practice closures hit record levels over the past year with 201 forced out of business, GPC chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul will tell the BMA annual representative meeting in Belfast on Wednesday. GPonline
- #GPnews: Lansley claims Brexit will stop NHS from making £22bn savings – Former health secretary Andrew Lansley does not believe NHS can save £22bn by 2020. Pulse
- BMA: Junior doctors’ strikes significantly improved Hunt deal – Johann Malawana tells annual conference that strikes led to recognition of weekend work, fair pay and safeguarding of hours. The Guardian
- NHS workers: what does Brexit mean for your job and the health service? – Fifty-five thousand of the 1.2 million staff in the English NHS are citizens of other EU countries, according to figures (pdf) by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. They fulfil a range of vital roles including doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, support workers and administrative staff. The Guardian
Supporting the Development of Community Pharmacy Practice within Primary Care