Creating Integrated Neighbourhood Teams: Learning from experience
This paper is the collective view of the NAPC Leadership and brings together NAPC’s experience of how to make neighbourhood health work and how to manage the challenging process of change, bringing in evidence from the UK and internationally.
A metronome or conductor for neighbourhood health?
Explore the tension between NHS targets and neighbourhood health, and why leaders must balance performance with community‑driven care.
Staff Activation and Real Teams: The Foundation for Safe and Effective Integrated Care
In this blog, Dr Minesh Patel describes how Integrated care cannot succeed without activated staff working in real teams.
Activation for Better Health and Care
Discover how activation, agency, and community connection can transform health and care systems.
Digital Clinical Safety
As explored in a recent conversation between Prof Andy Brooks and digital transformation expert Joanna Fox, digital innovation is rapidly reshaping primary care. From virtual triage to AI‑supported decision‑making, the opportunities are significant. But Jo stresses a crucial point: digital tools don’t guarantee safety. Their
NAPC responds to 2026/27 GP Contract: “Opportunity to reset the relationship and strengthen general practice”
The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has today responded to the publication of the 2026/27 GP Contract changes, following formal discussion with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England.
Beyond Survival: What a Better GP Contract Could Unlock
When we talk about the proposed direction of the GP contract, the first question we should be asking is ‘how will it help?’
The Future of General Practice: NAPC’s Perspective
This note sets out our high-level perspective, as a membership organisation, drawing on our long-standing work in population health, neighbourhood care, and primary care transformation.
Evaluation Reports for CHWW’s in South West London
These six reports from South West London evaluate the implementation and context of the Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWW) programme.
How NHS Leaders Can Overcome the Scarcity Mindset: Lessons From Kaiser Permanente and Neighbourhood Care
The NHS leadership mindset often sits between optimism for neighbourhood care and the pressures of daily system constraints.
