THE NAPC REVIEW ANNUAL REVIEW 2001 An Official Publication of the National Association of Primary Care Edited by Leslie Paine OBE

Welcome to the NAPC Annual Review 2001
Dr Rod Smith, President, National Association of Primary Care

Empowering Primary Care
Dr Peter Smith, Chairman, National Association of Primary Care

Primary Care Groups & Trusts

• Primary Care Trusts (PCTs): key issues and future developments
  Dr Howard Freeman, Joint Chairman of the Executive, Nelson and West Merton Primary Case Trust, London
• From PCG to PCT (a journey or a destination?)
  Richard O'Brien-Hill, Chief Executive, Kingston PCG, NAPC Honorary Secretary
• The NHS Plan - what are its prospects?
  Dr Stephen Gillam, Director, and Richard Lewis, Visiting Fellow, Primary Care Programme, King's Fund, London
• Helping Primary Care Groups to make evidence-based decisions
  Dr Jane Lindsay, Academic Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London; Mr Tony Hoolaghan, Chief Executive, and Dr Greg Battle, Chairman, North Islington PCG, London; and Professor Andy Haines, Professor of Primary Care, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
• PCGs and older people: signs of progress
  Margaret Edwards, Project Manager, Primary Care Groups and Older People, King's Fund, London

Practice Management, Finance & Quality Improvement

• Personal Medical services - the beginning of a revolution?
  Richard Lewis, Visiting Fellow, King's Fund, London
• Primary Care information management and the internet
  Dr Trefor Roscoe, Informatics Tutor, Institute of General Practice, University of Sheffield
• Telemedicine in General Practice
  Dr Keeran McGlade, Department of General Medicine and Advanced Informatics in Medicine Initiative, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• E-Health and Primary Care - a major challenge
  C. Peter Waegemann, Chairman, Centre for the Advancement of Electronic Health Records, Mathern, Chepstow, UK, and CEO, Medical Records Institute, Boston, USA
• Giving GPs desk-top access to best information
  Dr Kannan Subramaniam, Head of Marketing & Sales, Fizz
• Quality improvement programme for Primary Health Care teams
  The Health Quality Service (HQS), 15 Whitehall, London
• Financing GP Premises - the new challenges ahead
  Robert McClatchey, Director, Barclays UK & European Infrastructure Funds, Prime Public Partnerships Ltd

Nursing and Midwifery

• Nurses in Primary Care - new roles and responsibilities
  Alison While BSc, MSc, PhD, RGN, RHV, Cert Ed (FE), Professor of Community Nursing, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London
• Health Visitors - family centred public health workers
  Sarah Cowley BA, PhD, PGDE, RGN, RHV, RCNT, Professor of Community Practice Development, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London
• Midwives: their place in Primary Care
  Lynne Pacanowski, Principal Lecturer, Midwifery and Women's Health Studies Section, King's College London, and Senior Midwife, King's College Hospital NHS Trust; Pauleene Hammett, Head of Midwifery and Women's Health Studies Section, King's College London

Psychiatry

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: the problem of delivery
  Jeffrey Gray, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Dr Sharon Swain, Ultrasis UK Ltd, and Dr Judy Proudfoot, Kraupl-Taylor Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, London
• Computer aids to self-treatment of anxiety
  Isaac Marks, MD FRC Psych, Professor of Experimental Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London
• Drug Treatment of depressive illness
  Dr Richard Maxwell, Executive Committee Member, PriMHE (Primary Care Mental Health Education)
• Anti-psychotics - the revolution in psychiatric illness
  A.J. Blowers CBE PhD Cbiol FIBMS, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Surrey - Roehampton

Family Planning

• Choices in oral contraception
  Dr Sarah Brewer, Sexual Health Clinic, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, Norfolk, and freelance medical writer
• Levonelle-2 - A new form of emergency contraception
  Dr Rosemary Leonard, Rosendale Surgery, West Dulwich, London
• MIRENA - A significant advance in reversible contraception
  Dr Martyn Walling, Parkside Surgery, Boston, Lincolnshire

Orthopaedics and defects of bone mineral metabolism

• Starting an osteoporosis service from scratch
  Tim Melville, National Osteoporosis Society, Bath, Somerset

Oncology

• Cancer pain: it's time we got it right
  Richard Gamlin, Senior Lecturer, St Benedict's Hospice, Sunderland
• Prostate cancer - natural history and optimum treatment
  C Nutting and R A Huddart, Academic Unit of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, Downs Road, Sutton, UK
• Breast Cancer Treatment in Older women
  Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Dermatology

• The management of acne in early stages
  Dr Tony Chu, Head, Dermatology Section, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London
• Principles of wound healing and scar formation
  Peter D Asmussen and Brigitte Söllner, BSN Medical, Hamburg, Germany and Hull, UK

Urology

• Stress urinary incontinence and injectables
  Ms CM Evans, FRCS, Consultant Urologist and Mr AC Mathur, FRCS, Associate Specialist in Urology, Glan Clwyd District General Hospital, Bodelwyddan, Rhyl, North Wales

Cardiology

• Management of hypertension: the role of alpha-blockers
  Dr Henry Elliott, MD FRCP, Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Therapeutics at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Gardiner Institute, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
• Women and coronary heart disease
  Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Gastro-Enterology

• Managing gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
  Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Ltd (formerly known as Reckitt & Colman Products Limited)
• GP audit helping to achieve aims of NICE guidelines
  Dr Alun Cooper, GP Endoscopist, Bridge Medical Centre, West Sussex

Immunology

• Increasing flu vaccination rates in USA
  Leslie Paine, Editor

Diagnostic Imaging

• Spiral CT - cornerstone of many advanced CT applications
  Dr J R Harding, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales

Dentistry

• The General Dental Council
  Professor Nairn Wilson, President, General Dental Council, London

Complementary Medicine

• Osteopathy in a GP practice
  Mrs Aike Kennett-Borwn, BSc (Hons) Ost.Med, Osteopath, Oakview Family Practice, South Lewisham PCG, London
• The relevance of Chinese medicine to western medical practice
  Professor M F Mei, The Chinese Medical Institute and Register

Nutrition

• Faltering growth in children - causes and associations
  Margaret Lawson, Nestle Senior Research Fellow, and Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Nutrition, Institute of Child Health, University College, London
• Feeding in infancy - the essentiality of optimal nutrition
  Anita MacDonald, Dietetic Dept, The Children's Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH

Medical & Pharmaceutical Services

• The ABPI - the pharmaceutical industry and its partnerships
  The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, 12 Whitehall, London
• The role of the dispensing optician in Primary Care
  Alan Parkhurst, President, Association of British Dispensing Opticians

Lifestyle

• Undiscovered Caribbean
  The Caribbean Tourism Organisation

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