We need to move towards 'accountable care'
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The NHS needs to adopt a new model of €accountable care€ that is centred around population health if it is to survive the challenges of an ageing demographic and a funding shortfall, Dr Nav Chana, GP and chair of the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), told Avicenna's UK conference.
Dr Chana described accountable care as that which is accountable to the communities and individuals in need of care, rather than the practitioners that deliver it. Accountable care, he argued, should be organised around the outcomes that matter to patients, such as helping people to live independently, find housing or lose weight, and it should have a strong focus on prevention.
€Health inequality gaps have widened because we have not done anything about the population health issues that matter. We have been too busy thinking about our professions and lost sight of what is happening in our communities. Our healthcare system is designed for people to fall ill before we help them. We must move from a reactive care system to a preventative one.€