Future of Primary Care

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Title: What is the future of primary care? Author: Balvinder Kullar Date: 7th November 2012 Word Count: 1046 Contents Page 2 contents Page 3 introduction Page 4 What is the future of primary care? Page 6 Conclusion Page 7 References Introduction The future of primary care is being shaped by the government vision set out in the 2010 government white paper “Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS” (2010) and The Health and Social Care Act (2012). I have attempted to identify the significant changes which will occur as a result of the Health and Social Care Act (2012) and give my views on how these will impact on the future of primary care based on my 17 years of experience working within the NHS and Primary Care, during which time there have been other NHS reorganisations. In a recent article in the BMJ, Ham C (2012) has identified some of the key legislative changes as follows:  Primary care trusts and strategic health authorities will be abolished as part of a radical structural reorganisation, with new health and wellbeing boards being established to improve integration between NHS and local authority services  Clinical commissioning groups will take over commissioning from primary care trusts and will work with the new NHS Commissioning Board in doing so  A new regulator, Monitor, will be established to regulate providers of NHS services in the interests of patients and prevent anticompetitive behaviour  The voice of patients will be strengthened through the setting up of a new national body, HealthWatch, and local HealthWatch organisations  A new body, Public Health England, will lead on public health at the national level, and local authorities will do so at a local level What is the future of primary care?  Primary

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