The National Association of Primary Care is set to be integrated into the ranks of the NHS Confederation over the course of the next 18 months.

Officials have announced that it will become the confederation’s primary care provider network, although it will still retain both its name and leadership.

The move is viewed as an opportunity to create greater organisation and innovation within primary care nationwide.

NAPC chairman Charles Alessi said the NHS Confederation “provides the right platform for us to act as the exclusive vehicle for primary care provision”, which in turn will “allow the expansion of our membership base and increase our influence and effectiveness in all areas of our work”.

The process of the NAPC being taken under the wing of the confederation will take place over a transition period up to April 2015.

“We envisage this collaboration as an opportunity to further widen the diversity of primary care providers within NAPC and to ensure that they have a central role to play within our membership in shaping future innovative care provision,” explained Matt Tee, the NHS Confederation’s chief operating officer.

The parties said their agreement will have no effect on the NHS Clinical Commissioners body, of which the NAPC and NHS Confederation are founding partners, alongside the NHS Alliance.

 

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