GP News - 2 March 2018

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Does your GP practice support or take part in public health research?

NHS England 

Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) allows GP practices to gather feedback and contribute to medical research to improve patient care. CPRD is a not-for-profit government research service providing anonymised healthcare records for public health research. . Find out more about how this works in blogs by David Mullett of the Royal College of General Practitioners and by GP Dr Tommy Hunter.

Benefits include:

• Regular prescribing and patient safety reports to help GPs review patient care
• Patient  representation in research evidence informs national clinical guidance and best practice;
• Practices can opt into contributing data to CPRD by completing questionnaires and taking part in clinical studies. These are not compulsory, but do give an income to practices taking part.  
• Case reviews from QI reports, questionnaires and research can be used as evidence for annual appraisal and five-yearly professional revalidation;
• Joining is an easy, one-off process following which anonymised data automatically flows to CPRD.

All data is anonymised and adheres to robust information governance and security regulation frameworks.

The data held by CPRD is varied and representative of the UK population in regards to age, gender and ethnicity. As more practices sign up, the amount of data held will grow.

Data extracted from GP practices can be used to prove the safety of drugs/vaccines and is especially vital in circumstances where there would be increased risk to test a new drug on a person, for example if they were pregnant.

Third Next Appointment Collection from General Practices

NHS England 

In October 2017, NHS England commissioned the North of England CSU to collect third next appointment data from each general practice to better understand waiting times and quantify the pressure general practice is under.  The data collected has been used to give an indication of the amount of time a patient would theoretically have waited for an appointment when the booking was made.

A second collection has been commissioned for March 2018.  Every practice will receive a call from the supporting call centre that lasts no longer than four minutes.

Primary Care Talks

Have a listen to these free Primary Care Talks podcasts from The Eastern AHSN, exploring innovative approaches to managing primary care under pressure. Hosted by Dr Hasan Chowhan, each show interviews people working in primary care who are embarking on something new to deliver significant changes and increase efficiency.   

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