The UK 's experience of quality improvement 1995-2015.
In this talk, Professor Martin Roland will discuss how the UK government has tried to improve quality of primary care over the past ten years. Have they listened to researchers? Has policy been evidence based? And have they been successful? A new pay for performance scheme has hade UK GPs among the highest paid in the world, but has it helped patients? And what will the long term impacts on the profession be?
Professor Martin Roland, CBE. Martin is the Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre and Professor of General Practice at Manchester University. He has responsibility for the wide range of research projects being carried out at NPCRDC, but his personal area of research relates to measuring and improving the quality of care in the NHS. His past areas of research include back pain, hospital referrals, the use of time in general practice, out of hours care, and nurse practitioners in general practice. He was an advisor to the negotiating teams who developed a major pay for performance scheme that now accounts for 25% of GP income in the UK. Martin has been a principal in general practice for 25 years, working for the last ten years in the University' s practice at Rusholme Health Centre in central Manchester.
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