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

Foreword

Polyclinics – a patient’s view

NHS Organisation

• Primary care past and future: a commentary to mark the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the national association of Primary Care
  Dr David Colin-Thomé, National Director for Primary Care, Commissioning & System Management Directorate, Department of Health, London

Practice Management, Finance and Quality Improvement

• The state of the NHS - a time of unease
  Niall Dickson, Chief Executive, King’s Fund
• Business planning
  Sarah Coleman, Business Evolution Business Andrew Barratt, Business Consultant (specialising in Marketing and Sales)
• Choose and book
  Guy Dickie, NHS Connecting for Health

Redesigning Services in Primary Care

• Putting the practice back into practice-based commissioning
  Dr Foster Intelligence
• Raising the bar - management competence
  Sue Hodgetts, CEO, Institute of Healthcare Management
• Practice based commissioning & uncertainties for premises development
  Deb Farnworth-Wood, Managing Partner The New East Quay Medical Centre

Primary Care Property

Professional Development

Social Care

Specialist Care

• A national audit of specialist inpatient healthcare services for people with learning difficulties in England
  Fiona Ritchie, Lead Learning Disabilities Healthcare Commission
• Successful models for working with ethnic minorities
  Nigel Carter, Community Development Worker, Black and Minority Ethnic Communities (Mental Health)

Care of the Elderly

• The management of older people with depression in Primary Care
  Dr Anna Richman, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry
• Alzheimer’s disease
  The Psychiatry Research Trust, Institute of Psychiatry De Crespigny Park, The Psychiatry Research Trust Exploring New Horizons in Mental Health and Brain Disease Research
• Dementia in Primary Care
  The Alzheimer’s Society
• Aspects of care for the elderly: a review
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Musculoskeletal Medicine

• Osteopathy – where does it fit in your practice?
  Kelston Chorley DO, MSc.Ost, Head of Professional Development, British Osteopathic Association
• The knee: differential diagnosis
  Lesley Hall, MSc MCSP HPC, Droitwich Knee Clinic
• Do you know what patients actually want?
  Neil Betteridge, Chief Executive, Arthritis Care
• Chronic disease: two research reports
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Fertility

• The benefits of a fertility nutrition programme
  Yvonne Bishop-Weston, Fertility Nutritionist, Foods for Life
• GP management of infertility
  Dr Stephen Davies BSc MB BS DRCOG DCH GP Principal Larwood Surgery, Workshop & Clinical Assistant in Reproductive Medicine, Assisted Conception Unit Jessop Wing, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
• Managing depression in the postnatal period
  Ruth Rothman, Specialist Lead Parental & Child Mental Health

Sexual Health

Ophthalmology

• Delivering Primary Care ophthalmology
  Sarah Jeffery, The Practice plc

Audiology

• Dealing with hearing loss – yesterday, today and tomorrow
  Leslie Paine, Editor
• Implementing and sustaining the "modernising NHS hearing aid services programme" at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
  Justine Sweet, Head of Audiology Services Kingston Hospital NHS Trust

Aesthetic Medicine

• NHS Primary Care and private aesthetic practice
  Dr Paul Myers, British Association of Cosmetic Doctors

Cardiovascular Disease

• Cardiovascular disease – where next?
  Professor Roger Boyle CBE, National Director for Heart Disease and Stroke, Department of Health
• Recent US research reports on hypertension
  Agency for Healthcare and Quality
• Vascular disorders and dementia in Primary Care
  David Jolley MSc FRCPsych, PSSRU Manchester University Ian Greaves MBChB FRCGp, Gnosall Health Centre

Diabetes

• Cost benefits of insulin pump therapy
  Dr. Thomas Ulahannan FRCP, Consultant Physician, Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology
• Effective strategies for managing diabetes in children
  Helen Thornton, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Poediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, St Helen’s and Knowsley Teaching Hospital Trust
• New strategies for treating diabetes
  Anita Beckwith, Diabetes Specialist Dietitian and DAFNE Educator
• The role of the podiatrist in managing the diabetic foot
  Alison Williams, Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist Calderdale Royal hospital

Community Pharmacy

• Working with pharmacy
  Mark Beckett National Pharmacy Association ltd. (NPA)

Long Term Conditions

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in women
  Leslie Paine, Editor
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder: reports from USA
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Substance Abuse

• The cannabis controversies
  Malcom Lader, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute of Psychiatry Kings College, London
• Alcohol in Primary Care:
  Jeff Fernandez, Alcohol Lead Nurse, Islington PCT

Psychiatry

• Keep taking the tabloids?
  Dr. Raj Persaud is Gresham professor for public understanding of Psychiatry and consultant psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley, NHS hospitals NHStrust
• SANE
  Emma Smith, Communications Officer, SANE

Pain Management

• Back pain & aquatic therapy – the “evidence”
  Mike Maynard MCSP HT, Lead Physiotherapist, Pilgrim Hospital Boston & Clinical Lead in Aquatic Therapy - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Stoma Care

Children’s Health

• Childhood depression
  Psychiatry Research Trust, De Crespigny Park
  Dr Gordana Milavic, Consultant and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Clinical Director for CANHS, Maudsley Hospital, London
  Dr Thalia Eley, Senior Lecturer and MRC Fellow Social Genetic & Developmental Centre, Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London

Continence Care

Dermatology

• Non-steroidal dermatology treatments
  Dr. Martin Schiele, Bio Medical Research Scientist

Fatigue Syndrome

• Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: a brief introduction
  Michailidou C. Graded Exercise Therapist, Physiotherapist, Chronic Fatigue Unit, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, Wilkins S. Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, Chronic Fatigue Unit, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and Chalder T. Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, King’s College London
• Chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis: a case study
  Leslie Paine, Editor

Infusion Therapy

• Home intravenous (iv) therapy: a brief review
  Andrew Jackson, Consultant Nurse Intravenous Therapy & Care

Medical Tourism

Microsurgery

Nutrition

• Nutrition and bone health
  Dr Rachel Thompson, Senior Nutrition Scientist British Nutrition Foundation

Oncology

• Combating previously untreatable prostate cancers
  The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital, London

Palliative Care

• Religious and spiritual issues at the end of life
  Malcolm Payne, Policy and Development Adviser St Christopher’s Hospice
• Unlocking the box: talking with families about death and dying
  Stephanie Barker, Consultant Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Coleman Hospital

Point of Care Testing

Stem Cell Storage

Telemedicine

• Medical telepresence how telepresence is expanding the boundaries of medicine
  Martyn Lewis, Co-founder and European Chairman of Teliris
• Telecare
  Sarah  Chapman, Interim Category Specialist

Travel Medicine

• Schistosomiasis: are your travellers at risk?
  Yvonne Tollan, Nurse Specialist in Travel Health Medicine

Weight Management

• Obesity in Primary Care
  Louise Diss, TOAST, Helpline Chief Executive, The Obesity Awareness e Solutions Trust (TOAST)

Wound Management

• Pain and wound management
  Leslie Paine, Editor

Ultrasound

• Developments in ultrasound
  Grant M Baxter, British Medical Ultrasound Society

Lifestyle

• Champagne – king of the fizzes
  F A Lernian, Wine Consultant, London

NHS Trust Private Patients Units

 

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