Abstract

NHS England must take action to ease the “significant strain” on UK general practitioners to encourage primary care to focus more on population health, a report has concluded.1 The report, by health think tanks the Nuffield Trust and the King’s Fund, said that NHS England should work with clinical commissioning groups to give GPs “support, incentives, and permission” to test out new approaches to delivering and organising primary care. The review, commissioned by the former NHS Midlands and East Strategic Health Authority, assessed 21 different models of primary care organisation on their capacity to offer an extended range of services, including rapid and local access to generalist and specialist advice, effective population health strategies, and new forms of care …

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