Transcript Poster Presentation: Primary Care

Primary Care
Clinical Care Programme
Primary Care looks after 95% of all health needs in a
high quality, easily accessible and cost effective manner
Objectives:
Quality:
•Save x number of lives
•Prevent heart attack, stroke, amputation, blindness, kidney failure, asthma, heart failure,
COPD, falls and fractures.
•Promote clinical governance and leadership structure in primary care
Access:
•All patients with major chronic diseases to be managed in an integrated seamless fashion
allowing patients dignity and ability to stay in their communities
•Maintain high satisfaction with primary care services
•Facilitate no wait times for appropriate patients to secondary care
Cost:
•Reduce community drug costs
•Maintain patients in the community and avoid costly hospital admissions by effective
chronic disease management in primary care
Working Group:
• Dr. Joe Clarke – HSE Primary Care Clinical Lead
• Dr. Margaret O’Riordan – Head of Quality &
Standards, ICGP
• Dr. Brian O’Mahony – National ICTProject Manager
• Mr. Brian Murphy – National Primary Care Manager
• Prof Colin Bradley - University representative (UCC)
• Ms. Kathy Taaffe – Practice Nurse Coordinator
• Ms. Grainne Ryan – Public Health Nursing
• Ms. Emma Benton – AHP representative
• Ms. Grace Turner – Program Manager
GP Leads (ICGP)
• Dr. Barbara Kearns – Acute
Medicine
• Dr. Dermot Nolan – Asthma
• Dr. Tony Lee – Care of the Elderly
• Dr. Derek Forde – COPD
• Dr. Johnny Loughnane –
Dermatology
• Dr. Velma Harkins – Diabetes
• Dr. Joe Gallagher – Heart failure
• Dr. David Gibney – Rheumatology
• Dr. Pat Durcan - Stroke
For further information on the Programme, please contact [email protected]