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.
No Better Time to Make Health Tech Happen
NAPC are firm believers that the rapid adoption of health technologies can help health and social care systems achieve better outcomes.
Success through the CARE programme
Every programme delivered by NAPC starts with asking what it means for the health and well-being of the population and the sustainable delivery of care and support. This is nowhere more evident than in the CARE programme, supported by NHS England and delivered by the
Community Health and Wellbeing Workers Episode 2
In the second part of this series, we hear from Dr Matt Harris and Dr Nav Chana about the implementation of the Brazilian model into the UK.
Forming Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) around ‘natural’ communities – the Dorset approach
Our work in Dorset was initially focused on older people but quite quickly it became apparent that there was a desire to adopt this as an all-age approach. This emerged from an extensive listening exercise between May and August 2023 involving around 150 people from across the
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.
Catching up with Dr David Colin-Thomé
We caught up with Dr David Colin-Thomé OBE, a great luminary of primary care, council member and supporter of NAPC and the man who shaped the thinking behind Primary Care Home.
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.
Digital Front Door Podcast
In this episode of the NAPC Podcast we discuss the Digital Front Door. We are joined by Sura Al-Qassab and Jo Fox, Faculty members at NAPC. Listen here.
Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWW)
CHWWs visit households within defined areas so people receive tailored and holistic health and wellbeing support to address health inequalities.