Several ways of shaping primary care are being developed all around the world. Improving the role of nurses or giving general practitioners new competences are just a couple of ways of moving primary care towards a more comprehensive way of working.

In this post in the NHS Confederation Blog, some of the initiatives performed to change primary care are explained and some of the challenges that future primary care will face are listed.

One of the main points outstanded is the need of integrating care and workforce from different levels of health care. As it is said in this post “Patients will benefit from easy access to a single integrated, multidisciplinary team drawn from a wide range of health and social care professionals”