1. Why a local primary care website? STARPACE St Albans and Region PrimAry Care Education www.starpace.co.uk

2. Challenges  Fragmentation  Rapid evolution of knowledge base  Intensification of workloads  Communication gaps  What services are available?  How do I find the knowledge I need?  Who do I contact?  What/ where are their contact details

3. www.starpace.co.ukwww.starpace.co.uk : Functions www.starpace.co.uk  LOCAL REPOSITORY: “The Knowledge” Local guidelines Local guidelines Local Services: clinical and educational Local Services: clinical and educational Local contact information Local contact information  LOCAL INTERACTION (educational and service)  LINKS: Local, Regional, National: mainly Library/knowledge

4. STARPACE : current features  Library section  IT  Links  Nursing and HCA courses  Out of Hours – pharmacy info, Star-doc rota  Mental Health – FLAG  TARGET  GP Appraisal  CONNECT

5. STARPACE coming soon  Monthly Bulletin – e-mail to mailing list  Quarterly report/update  Mental Health section

6. The Future  Flexibility and Responsiveness- just ask!  Technology not a major issue  How to structure content is more of an issue than deciding on the content  Each discipline needs to produce its own content  Use by patients  Main challenge is staying up to date, responding rapidly  What is LOCAL?  A network or co-operative of locality based sites?