Transforming primary care: New referral checklist

Department of Health, 2014

This document sets out plans for more proactive, personalised and joined up care, including the Proactive Care Programme, providing the 800,000 patients with the most complex health and care needs with:

• a personal care and support plan
• a named accountable GP
• a professional to coordinate their care
• same-day telephone consultations

The plan builds on the role of primary care in keeping patients well and independent. It explains how professionals across the healthcare system can work together to transform care to become more proactive and tailored to patients’ individual need.

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