Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions, November 2016
- Research suggests a number of measures could help commissioners and providers and help deliver a more sustainable system of primary care for tomorrow:
- collecting robust, comprehensive and timely activity and performance data across primary care on both supply and demand is a critical requirement if the full potential of new care models is to be realised
- securing adequate levels of funding for general practice of over ten per cent of the healthcare budget (as prioritised in the General Practice Forward View) and investing more in prevention, wider primary and social care
- prioritising innovative and proactive workforce strategies that include effective workforce planning, recruitment and retention strategies for GPs, practice nurses and the wider primary and social care workforce
- shifting from medicalised models of care towards sharing out responsibilities and risks across permeable professional boundaries among the wider primary care team
- aligning incentives through integrated funding and commissioning
- improving health literacy to help patients take more responsibility for their own health and enhance patient participation and engagement in healthcare planning and delivery
- improving, as a matter of urgency, the primary care estate and extending the adoption of digital health technology through effective partnerships.
