THE NAPC REVIEW Winter 2005-2006 An Official Publication of the National Association of Primary Care Edited by Leslie Paine OBE

Foreword

• NHS REFORM and PRACTICE BASED COMMISSIONING
  Dr James Kingsland, Chairman, National Association of Primary Care
• NAPC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Primary Care Trusts

• The New PCTs: Local Health Market Managers?
  Richard Banyard, Associate Lecturer, Hull College, Lift Project Manager
• NAPC future events

Practice Management, Finance & Quality Improvement

• PRACTICE BASED COMMISSIONING: Tips for Practice Managers.
  The government has thrown down the gauntlet: will we pick it up?
  Jose Tarnowski, Practice Manager, Wrington Vale Medical Practice, North Somerset
• PRACTICE BASED COMMISSIONING A New Beginning
  Sandy Briddon, PBC Project Director, Thames Valley PCTs, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust
• PRACTICE BASED COMMISSIONING: EDICS Ltd - A COMPANY DELIVERING SPECIALIST PERSONAL MEDICAL SERVICES CONTRACTS
  Dr. Anne Hollings, Medical Director, Epson Downs Integrated Care Services (Edics Ltd)

Diagnostics

• Working Together
  InTime Data

Alcoholism

• ALCOHOL ADDICTION
  Robert Patton and Francis Keaney, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London

Allergy

• Food allergy: assessing the risks for anaphylaxis
  The Anaphylaxis Campaign

Children’s Health

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children and adolescents
  Dr. Patrick Smith & Dr. Richard Meiser-Stedman, Institute of Psychiatry, London
• Nocturnal Enuresis - Yesterday and Today
  Dr. Jo Wood, General Practitionery, Chelsfield, Kent

Continuing Professional Development

• CPD in Mental Health
  Robert Jackson, Acting Head of Postgraduate Education
  A report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Cosmetic Surgery

• Cosmetic Surgery
  Lamide Akinsanya

Infertility

• 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

Neuropsychiatry

• EPILEPSY
  The Psychiatry Research Trust, De Crespigny Park, London
• Could Neuropsychiatric Disease be a result of infection?
  R. John Dobbs DCH MD FRCP, Sylvia M Dobbs MSc MD FRCP, Norman Oxlade MSc, Clive Weller MIEE PhD, André Charlett MSc, Robert F Mahler FRCP. Therapeutic Research Group, Section of Clinical Neuropharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, Statistics Unit, Health Protection Agency, & Royal College of Physicians, London

Nutrition

• Gluten Intolerance
  Lamide Akinsanya

Obesity and Weight Management

• ESTABLISHING A SPECIALIST WEIGHT MANAGEMENT SERVICE (SWiMS) IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE - PART 2
  Wendy Hicks, Programme Manager SWIMS, Newcastle PCT

Oncology

• LIFE AFTER CANCER
  Leslie Paine, Editor

Opthalmology

• STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY-BASED PRIMARY CARE OPHTHALMIC SERVICES FOR GLAUCOMA PATIENTS
  Rod McNeil, International Glaucoma Association

Respiratory Care

• Maintaining Respiratory Conditions with Salt Therapy
  CISCA Limited

Pain Management

• DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PAIN: RESEARCH REPORTS FROM USA
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Silver Spring, Maryland

Sports Medicine

• ANKLE SPRAIN INJURIES
  Sian Knott, MSc, MMACP, MCSP, HPC Newsletter Editor and South Wales Regional Representative ACPSM Clinical Director Dean Conway Associates Ltd

Wound Care

• Avoiding Infection in Wound Care
  Mrs Patricia Davies BSc (Hons) RGN RM LPE PGCE. Senior lecturer in Tissue Viability, University of Central England, Birmingham

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