Access and urgent care

• An evaluation of Advanced Access in general practice
  This research was based on a comparison of 48 general practices, half of which operated Advanced Access appointment systems and half of which did not (designated ‘control’ practices).

  2 July 2014
• Thorpe-le-Soken Surgery
  Thorpe-le-Soken Surgery eagerly took on the Productive General Practice programme.

  2 July 2014
• Concord Medical Centre - Saving 1000 hours of GP consultation time
  GP appointments with mental health patients were frequently over running, leading to delays for other patients and additional stress and pressure on GPs.

  2 July 2014
• Clinical commissioning in action
  This publication shares learning from CCGs around England in the form of case studies.

  2 July 2014
• South Devon and Torbay CCG virtual wards
  South Devon and Torbay CCG describe their virtual wards.

  2 July 2014
• Case study: East Suffolk Federation
  Interview with Dr John Havard from The East Suffolk Federation.

  2 July 2014
• Co-ordinated care in South Devon and Torbay
  We have been working with South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to find out more about their innovative primary care-based approaches to care.

  2 July 2014
• Introduction of ultrasonography into general practice
  Ultrasonography has played an increasingly important role in diagnostics over the past decade. Software sophistication has allowed wide-ranging generation of reliable, cost-effective, easily...

  2 July 2014
• Better GP access, better A&E outcomes
  Two case studies from the HSJ.

  2 July 2014
• Reducing hospital admission rates for people with diabetes: a systematic approach to improving primary care outcomes
  In 2008, people with diabetes living in Greenwich had some of the poorest outcomes in the country as measured through Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) achievement rates.

  2 July 2014
• Peer-reviewed referral management: saving money and increasing quality by improving referral practice
  The initiative to help save money and increase quality by improving referral practice.

  2 July 2014
• Service redesign case study: Providing specialist emergency care in Northumbria
  Providing specialist emergency care in Northumbria.

  2 July 2014
• Pennine MSK Partnership A case study of an Integrating Pathway Hub (IPH) “Prime Contractor”
  Pennine MSK partnership Ltd is a specialist Personal Medical Services partnership that has been commissioned by NHS Oldham to provide a comprehensive services to the population of Oldham in...

  2 July 2014
• Academic evidence
  25 June 2014