There is growing recognition of the importance of quality improvement in general practice. But what is the level of QI knowledge, awareness and usage among UK practices? Newly published research from the London School of Hygiene & tropical Medicine funded by the Health Foundation provides some answers.
The RCGP is expanding its Menstrual Wellbeing toolkit into a Women’s Health hub. This will include additional resources to help clinicians care for women through a life-course approach. The hub will include new free to access CPD, including Heavy Menstrual Bleeding e-learning and a patient podcasts. Dr Anne Connolly, RCGP Clinical Champion for Women’s Health, explains more.
The barriers between primary and secondary care can lead to frustrations and impact on patient care and safety. Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group implemented an innovative Bright Idea, the GP Consultant Exchange Programme, to foster deeper partnerships between clinicians and to ignite opportunities for innovation and quality improvement.
The Royal College of General Practitioners has launched its programme calling for partners to develop clinical programmes in 2020. It is an opportunity to collaborate with the College’s Clinical Innovation and Research Centre (CIRC) to support GPs and primary care teams to deliver better quality health and care to their patients.
The RCGP recently launched a genomics medicine toolkit to support GPs and their teams to better understand genomics medicine and how it can contribute to improving patient care. Dr Jude Hayward and Dr Imran Rafi, Joint RCGP Clinical Champions for Genomics, explain more.
The National Institute for Health Research School of Primary Care Research (NIHR SPCR) Evidence Synthesis Working Group is a collaboration of all nine primary care member departments of the SPCR. Here, members of the group describe the findings and implications for practice from their review on the delegation of home visits in general practice.
At the Royal College of General Practitioners, we want new approaches to be recognised, celebrated and shared. Recently the College awarded a Bright Ideas Award to Red Kite Health Solutions, in Powys, Wales for its social enterprise approach to providing sustainable general practice in the county.
This year the College recognised six people and practice teams with Bright Ideas Awards for innovative approaches which have improved efficiency and workload in primary care. The award winners included Dr Ben Noble, Associate Clinical Cancer Lead at East Midlands Strategic Clinical Network. Dr Noble received the award for Cancer Maps, a referral algorithm that supports the recommendations in the NICE guideline on recognition and referral for suspected cancer.
The RCGP has been awarding research grants via the Scientific Foundation Board since 1976. The Board awards grants to research projects whose findings will be of direct relevance to the care of patients in the general practice setting. In November 2019, Professor Richard Neal took over as Chair of the Scientific Foundation Board. We speak to Richard about his research interests and priorities as the Chair.
At the Royal College of General Practitioners, we celebrate new approaches that reduce workload and increase efficiency in primary care through the Bright Ideas Awards. Recently, the College recognised the team at Dwyfor Primary Care Cluster, Wales for their innovative approach to treating temporary residents in Dwyfor during holiday periods.