RCGP looks at impact of GP contract on health inequalities
Mar 18, 2005 - 3:52:00 PM
The contract review provides an excellent opportunity to reconsider how we can deliver quality health care to our most deprived communities. We hope this conference will help impart to narrow the inequalities divide
By RCGP, [RxPG] The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is to examine health inequalities in relation to the new GP contract at an event in Leeds today.
The one-day conference Health inequalities and the new GMS contract: Assessing the impact informing the debate, is held one year before the Department of Health review of the GP contract. It is expected that this conference will provide an opportunity for GPs, policy makers, commissioners, and wider primary care staff to generate ideas to inform the review of the contract.
Dr Nat Wright, chair of the RCGP Health Inequalities Group, said: The contract review provides an excellent opportunity to reconsider how we can deliver quality health care to our most deprived communities. We hope this conference will help impart to narrow the inequalities divide.
Delegates will consider current policy as it relates to health inequalities, discuss current and new ways of contractual working that can barrow the health inequalities divide, and examine clinical areas and groups with special needs which has not been made explicit in the new contract.
This conference commences at 9.15am on Friday 18 March 2005 and will be held at the Thackray Medical Museum, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7LN (Tel. 0113 244 4343)
Further information on the work of the RCGP Health Inequalities Group can be viewed here http://www.rcgp.org.uk/clinspec/hineqgr1.asp?menuid=109
The Royal College of General Practitioners is the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom solely for GPs. It aims to encourage and maintain the highest standards of general medical practice and to act as the voice of GPs on issues concerned with education; training; research; and clinical standards. Founded in 1952, the RCGP has over 22,000 members who are committed to improving patient care, developing their own skills and promoting general practice as a discipline. www.rcgp.org.uk
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