New NHS Alliance marks a natural progression from NHS Alliance’s core roots in general practice to a platform that interconnects NHS primary care, and the wider system, with the many determinants and enablers of health creation that lie beyond it. Both will remain active supporters and advisers.ĭr Dixon used his swan song speech to launch a blistering attack on an NHS that “locks out primary care financially.” The New NHS Alliance leadership team recognises primary care as an enabler for powerful change. The gathering was held to mark the retirement of Dr Michael Dixon, GP and chairman of NHS Alliance for the past 18 years, and chief executive, Rick Stern’s decision to return to a full-time role with The Primary Care Foundation. The message from the New NHS Alliance, as laid out on 8th December during a gathering of clinical leaders and senior policy makers in central London, will ring in dental practitioners’ ears and seem highly pertinent in today’s troubled NHS environment. NHS healthcare is about more than dentistry.

“Yesterday’s thinking won’t meet tomorrow’s NHS challenges” says New NHS Alliance

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