1. Primary Care Activity Mapping Project
24th September 2013
Primary Care Activity Mapping Project
Presenter: Bethan Jenkins
Senior Public Health Practitioner
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2. Primary Care Activity Mapping Project
Scoping exercise - Dec 2012
PID - May 2013
Progress report - July 2013
Final report - September 2013
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3. Scoping exercise Set out to answer:
What does Public Health Wales provide/do for Primary Care?
What does Primary Care do for Public Health Wales?
What Primary Care expertise does Public Health Wales have? What do Public Health Wales do with it/use it for?
Generated more questions than answers!
Identified emerging issues and provided a foundation for formal
mapping project
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4. Conclusions Key components we need to get right:
efficiency of efforts (avoid duplication)
coordination
effective communication
easy access to information
Questions to be considered:
How do we enhance delivery of public health through primary care?
How do we ensure quality intervention through primary care?
How do we support primary care to do it?
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5. Primary Care Activity Mapping Project
Aimed to:
Provide an informed baseline, from which a more coordinated way of working can be developed
Provide information to support Public Health Wales to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of its engagement and interaction with primary care
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6. Methodology
Public Health Wales organisational chart used as a framework
Division Directors and/or Team Leads contacted to request meeting or to nominate team member(s)
Semi-structured interviews (26)
Interview notes analysed to identify themes/categories of activity
Themes identified informed development of results tables
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7. Themes/categories of activity
Service Provision for Professionals/Patients
Provision of Information for Professionals/Patients
Communication Mechanisms
Education and Training
Quality Assurance
Leadership/Advocacy
Data
Research/Innovation
Partnerships
Marketing
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8. Overview of Findings Public Health Wales provide:
Evidence based services
Quality assurance function
Expert advice
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9. Overview of Findings Communication:
Examples of good communication mechanisms
Public Health Wales ‘brand’ not always well respected
Individual ‘brands’ have a stronger reputation
Promotion of messages via partner organisations
Lack of clear communications strategy
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10. Overview of Findings
Public Health Wales are involved in an extensive list of learning opportunities
Efforts of teams are sometimes duplicated or cross-cutting/conflicting
Report will contain tables presenting detailed findings
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11. Issues/barriers identified
Inability to communicate directly with some providers
Lack of communication when work impacts on another team
Some communication can have a negative impact on how other information is received
Need to improve profile of certain teams
Need to understand what primary care want from PHW
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12. Recommendations
Learn from examples of successful primary care engagement
Consider how efforts can be coordinated and streamlined
Improve communication and collaboration between teams
Provide focal point for communication and engagement with general practice (GP One)
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13. Recommendations
Consider similar engagement model for wider primary care professions
Find out what the primary care profession(s) want from Public Health Wales
Mapping exercise could be a ‘live’ document/database
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14. Thank you to everyone who helped and contributed to the mapping project!
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