1st Round of Workshops      

1 Chronic Disease Management

- Improving coordination in Primary Health Care across Europe (Irwin, UK)
- The Italian experience of chronic disease management (Valerio, Italy)
- Comprehensive community and home-based health care model for chronic diseases. Describing an experience of implementation (Fantini, Italy)
- Evaluation of the introduction of clinical guidelines for the management of patients affected by chronic diseases. The governance proposal of an Italian GPs co-operative. (Quadrelli, Italy)
- A new method of intervention group: the expert patient in heart failure (Peris, Spain)

2 Interdisciplinary Collaboration

- Health centre in a shopping mall: Empoli (Florence), the first year of activity (Salvadori, Italy)
- Opportunities for physical activity promotion in primary health care for children as perceived by the Finnish public health nurses (Javainen-Levonen, Finland)
- Is multidisciplinary group practice in "Maisons de Santé" the future of primary care in France? (Bourgueil, France)
 
Introductory Video: Archipel, centre for housing, care and welfare


3 Patient Expectations and Involvement

- The significance of matcheted patient-doctor expectations for a successful back pain consultation in primary care (Georgy, UK)
- Sense of coherence and carotid artery intima media thickness measurements: presenting four case reports from the Spili cohort in rural Crete, Greece (Anyfantakis, Greece)
- Resolutive role of customer care unit in a primary care team (Gascon, Spain)
- User's satisfaction with the resolution of the acute health's problems by the nursery (Mateo, Spain)

4 Monitoring of Primary Care Performance

Due to contract obligations with the EC the PHAMEU presentations are not yet publicly available!

- Monitoring the structure of primary care systems in Europe: results from the PHAMEU project, part I (Dedeu, Spain)
- Monitoring the provision of primary care services in Europe: results from the PHAMEU project, part II (Rotar Pavlic, Slovenia)
- What factors explain variations between primary care teams in patient visits? (Sarria-Santamera, Spain)
- EUPRIMECARE: quality and costs of primary care in Europe (Sarria-Santamera, Spain)
- International comparison of the implications of primary care systems in pandemic influenza A(H1N1)v (Cartier, France)

Introductory Video: Catalonia: Primary Care on the crossroads


5 Health Indicators and Patient Related Health Outcomes

- The quality and outcomes framework-transforming the face of Primary Care in the UK (Gillam, UK)
- Markets of professionalism: Is there a dichotomy  in the performance monitoring of different models of primary care. Lessons from two devolved health care systems in the UK (O'Donnel, UK)
- The extent to which contextual effects explain patient satisfaction with GP assistance in four Italian regions (Murante, Italy)

Introductory Video: The Bromley by Bow Centre, East London - using innovation and creativity to address health in a community setting


6 Research, Funding and Developments, in Primary Care

- A training needs analysis of health professionals in Malta's Primary Health Department: a boon or a bane? (Bombagi, Malta)
- The roadmap for trombolysis in outpatients with acute stroke (Puccetti, Italy)
- Research agenda (Visentin, Italy)
Workshops Moderators


  • Chronic Disease Management
    Gavino Macciocco
    Peter Groenewegen
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Leadership
    Paolo Tedeschi
    Marianne Samuelson
 
  • Patient Expectations and Involvement
    Mona-Lisa Hagvide 
    Tatyana Pasenyuk
  • Monitoring of Primary Care Performance
    Wienke Boerma
    Dionne Kringos
     
  • Health Indicators
    Niro Siriwardena
    Jan De Maeseneer
  • R&D and Funding
    Giorgio Visentin
    Val Lattimer