Why Not?… Have a truly National Health Service rather than a National Sickness Service?
Thoughts from our Chair – Dr Caroline Taylor
NAPC Position – Modern Principles
NAPC Council Member, Dr Johnny Marshall, talks about NAPC’s position on modern principles.
NHS Founding Principle – Comprehensive
NAPC Council Member, Dr Johnny Marshall, talks to us about the NHS founding principle.
Pharmacy First: supporting access to NHS care
By Dr Claire Fuller, National Medical Director for Primary Care, and David Webb, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, NHS England. Every so often we experience a significant change in how NHS services are offered. Pharmacy First, which launched on 31 January 2024, is one of these changes.
Community Health and Wellbeing Workers – From Brazil to the UK
It was a natural partnership when Dr Matthew Harris and Dr Nav Chana teamed up to support the initiative of placing Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWW) in Churchill Gardens, Westminster.
The Digital Front Door
In this blog, NAPC’s Deputy CE Katrina Percy and digital programme members Sura Al-Qasaab and Joanna Fox outline the steps to the successful implementation of the ‘digital front door’ currently being rolled out in practices across Northwest London.
Care Navigation – signposting to the right care in the right place at the right time
The positive changes that have been adopted across the healthcare system as a result of challenges we faced during the Covid-19 pandemic have been well documented and in our previous podcast and blog we highlighted increasing public recognition of the value and role of community pharmacists.
Community Pharmacy– the new front line of the NHS
The Covid-19 pandemic changed the healthcare landscape in many ways – and a number of those changes were beneficial. High up on the list of positive changes was an increased public recognition of the value of community pharmacists and the vital role they could play
Calderdale Ageing Well initiative yields tangible rewards
It is beyond doubt that the UK’s elderly population is growing and with so too is the prevalence of long term and chronic conditions, which is placing increasing strain on an already overstretched health and care system.
