Posted on: 25 October 2017
More than 200 sites serving eight million patients across England are now part of the innovative primary care home programme, where a range of health and social care professions work together to provide enhanced personalized and preventative care for their local community.
Bradford Care Alliance Community Interest Company (CIC) is the latest to sign up to the programme – developed by the National Association of Primary Care - and will be developing 12 primary care homes across the city.
The primary care home initiative is part of the New Care Models programme featured in the Next Steps on the NHS Five year Forward View, and links to plans to transform primary care over the next two years.
Staff come together as a complete care community – drawn from GP surgeries, community, mental health and acute trusts, social care and the voluntary sector - to focus on local population needs and provide care closer to patients’ homes. It echoes some of the features of the multispecialty community provider (MCP) but focuses on a smaller population, enabling transformation at a faster pace.