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Transforming our health care system: a summary

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As health care commissioners are faced with the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades, we set out ten priorities for action to help commissioners transform the health care system.

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  1. Active support for self management
  2. Primary prevention
  3. Secondary prevention
  4. Managing ambulatory care sensitive conditions
  5. Improving the management of patients with mental and physical needs
  6. Care co-ordination through integrated health and social care teams
  7. Improving primary care management of end-of-life care
  8. Effective medicines management
  9. Managing elective activity-referral quality
  10. Managing emergency activity: urgent care

More on the ten priorities for commissioners

  • Download the paper: Transforming our health care system
  • Listen to Candace Imison talking through the ten priorities with our audio slideshow
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Candace Imison talks through the ten priorities in our audio slideshow

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