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ArticleInternational journal of integrated care2018

Transforming Integration through General Practice: Learning from a UK Primary Care Improvement Programme.

Robin Miller

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Article in International journal of integrated care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. The Odyssey of Integration: Is Management its Achilles' Heel?International journal of integrated care · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Robin MillerHealth Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Park House, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2RT, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article addresses the challenge of how to implement integration within primary care services. It shares learning from a UK based improvement programme which reflected international interest in transferring activities from hospital and community and developing holistic primary care that responds to the needs of the local community. Programme components included additional per capita funding for involved practices, monthly learning sets between pilot leads, and a formative evaluation. Practices had flexibility in how to use the additional funding to meet local needs and were selected through a competitive process. The programme successfully delivered diagnostic and treatment activities previously provided in acute hospital. Some practices also introduces new holistic approaches which were mostly sustained at the end of the twelve month period. The programme demonstrates that transformation of primary care requires a change in the internal paradigms held by clinicians and purchasers, careful design of learning opportunities, responding to multiple levels of motivation, and deployment of relevant change infrastructures and improvement methodologies.

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commissioninggeneral practiceintegrationprimary caretransformation

Identifiers

PMID30127697
PMCPMC6095053

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