Primary care
Primary care
The foundations of UHC: The UK’s Primary care organisations and their supporting healthcare partners are ready for successful partnerships through consultancy, advisory, design and workforce development.
The UK is known around the world for the quality of its Primary care and its availability without cost to all citizens. The General Practitioner (the family doctor) and their team is the most commonly used access point and where 9 out of 10 healthcare contacts are made. Primary care in the UK is the central part of an integrated system which provides continuity and co-ordination whilst acting as the gatekeeper for access to specialist hospital care.
Primary care
Internationally, the availability of Primary care is associated with:
- Better patient experience
- Lower health service utilisation and lower costs
- Lower five year mortality rates
- Better clinical outcomes
The UK provides Primary care that is the first point of access into the healthcare system. It is often seen as a gatekeeper.
We can help with:
- Supporting the development of Primary care services through consulting and advisory services for efficient systems.
- Training Primary care clinicians through established, world leading training providing.
- Support on delivering policy and regulatory systems to ensure quality outcomes through National NHS bodies.
- Advisory support to continually improve services through new care models and service transformation.
- Market studies and planning to shape future planning.
- Primary care facility design.
- Primary care Health and Wellbeing Programmes to Reduce Illness.
- Specialist Primary care technology systems.
Primary care
Organisations that specialise in primary care
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Primary care
Case study: The Centre for Primary Care Improvement at The University of Birmingham
The Centre for Primary Care Improvement is designed to create practical learning that can make a timely difference to patient care. We are committed to the generation of knowledge that can be applied in real life situations and reliant on rigorous and credible assessment methods.
Our approach recognises contributions from a range of disciplines including the clinical, social, and computer sciences to deliver outputs that will enable local improvements and produce transferable knowledge valid across national and international settings.
The centre is led by Dr Ian Litchfield and Professor Tom Marshall.
The centre aims to improve primary care within four key domains:
- Clinical effectiveness – Enabling the delivery of timely evidence-based treatment to the appropriate patients.
- Patient experience – Collaborating with patients to ensure providers deliver outcomes that matter.
- Service utilisation – Informing the optimal use of staff and facilities.
- Improve staff experience – Working with staff to develop mutually acceptable interventions and solutions.