Transforming primary care

The Department of Health and NHS England have published a joint plan, entitled Transforming Primary Care, to provide personalised, proactive care for people who need it most.

The report sets out plans for more proactive, personalised and joined up care, including the Proactive Care Programme, providing the 800,000 patients with the most complex health and care needs with:

  • A personal care and support plan;
  • A named accountable GP;
  • A professional to coordinate their care; and
  • Same-day telephone consultations.

The plan, which builds on the role of primary care in keeping patients well and independent, explains how professionals across the healthcare system can work together to transform care to become more proactive and tailored to patients’ individual need.

To download the plan visit www.gov.uk/government/publications/plans-to-improve-primary-care.