PCC is now publishing weekly reports from NHS Direct on swine flu call volumes to its call centres and to the National Pandemic Flu Service. The reports will be published before 10am every Thursday until further notice.
Themes bring together news and useful material on major areas of primary care policy in one place.
WCC round two: acting director general of commissioning and system management Gary Belfield talks about what’s in store for the second year of assurance.
Visit the PCC TV page for presentations by speakers at the recent WCC national event, interviews with PCTs and a new series of programmes on practice-based commissioning.
Primary care and community services: Improving quality in primary care
Part of the world class commissioning suite of practical guides, this document will support PCTs as commissioners of primary care, in working with local clinicians and other stakeholders - including patients - to promote continuous quality and productivity improvement in primary care services.
The quality guide and others in the series are available on the DH website.
The Royal College of General Practitioners has updated its guide to GP revalidation.
The most recent version of the guide was published in August and is designated version 2.0. It replaces the version first published in April this year.
The latest in the series of frameworks for pharmacists with special interests, on the subject of skin care, is now available.
The guidance is the result of collaboration between the DH, NHS PCC, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the Primary Care Dermatology Society, the British Association of Dermatologists and the Skin Care Campaign.
