Primary Care Clinical Care Programme

1. 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: • 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 • 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 For further information on the Programme, please contact graceturner@rcpi.ie