The organisation and delivery of health improvement in general practice and primary care: a scoping study.
\nStephen Peckham, Jane Falconer, Steve Gillam, Alison Hann, Sally Kendall, Kiran Nanchahal, Benjamin Ritchie, Rebecca Rogers, Andrew Wallace.<\/p>\n
Every year over 300 million consultations take place in general practice in England. Professional guidelines and government policy support increasing the role of practitioners to provide advice and information on improving patient\u2019s health and also providing medical help and treatment to help prevent\u00a0worsening health for people already suffering from conditions such as diabetes or heart disease. However, little is known about how such advice and support is given or if different ways of supporting patients are better than others.<\/p>\n
A study led by CHSS Director, Professor Stephen Peckham, published in the latest edition of the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Journal, reports on a study that reviewed the literature on the delivery and organisation of such interventions to identify whether or not particular approaches were more effective than others. The research focus was guided by discussions with primary-care professionals to ensure the findings were relevant to current practice.<\/p>\n
The findings of the study are that there is insufficient evidence to show that particular approaches to helping improve the health of patients were effective or to show how best to provide such services. There was some evidence to show that interventions for smoking were effective but the quality of the evidence was mixed and there is a lack of studies on many important health problems faced by patients. There is a need for more discussion with practitioners, and support is needed for research to be carried out in general practice settings. Despite a government policy emphasis on developing the health improvement role of general practice, recent reforms to the English NHS have created a more complex situation, and attention needs to be paid to supporting general practice at a local level. The organisation and delivery of health improvement in general practice and primary care: a scoping study. Stephen Peckham, Jane Falconer, Steve Gillam, Alison Hann, Sally Kendall, Kiran Nanchahal, Benjamin Ritchie, Rebecca Rogers, Andrew Wallace. Every year over 300 million consultations take place in general practice in England. Professional guidelines and government policy support increasing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1125,"featured_media":1995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n‘The organisation and delivery of health improvement in general practice and primary care: a scoping study’<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0is now available online – pdf.\u00a0Health Services and Delivery Research Volume: 3 Issue: 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"