RCGP response to The Intelligent Practice –
Understanding the information needs of GP
commissioners
27 February 2007
The RCGP welcomes the report’s recommendations for an improved
information framework which will support GPs in making their
commissioning decisions. Family doctors need to build up a more
comprehensive picture of the health needs of their patients in
order to commission services effectively.
The key to good commissioning is accurate, timely information
and the capacity and capability to interpret it. There is huge
potential for practices to use data to improve patient care but GPs
and practices are overwhelmed with information and need support and
a framework for making sense of it.
We urge Primary Care Trusts to improve and simplify data
packages, making them real-time and relevant for GPs.
Professor Mayur Lakhani, Chair of the RCGP
Ends
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