25 April 2013

The role of the GP in improving population health

Reclaiming a population health perspective 
Nuffield Trust, April 2013
  • An exploration of the role general practices in improving population health at a time of increasing levels of chronic ill health and reduced budgets.
  • The report examines the arguments for encouraging and enabling general practices to take a more proactive role in improving the health and wellbeing of their local populations, as well as their individual patients and draws on analysis of routine data from a notional general practice of 10,000 patients and a series of interviews conducted with GPs and practice managers