Links Project Report:developing the connections between general practices and their communities

The Links Project was established between October 2010 and May 2011. Staff in ten Scottish General Practices explored connections with their communities. Six of the practices were in areas of deprivation in Glasgow and four in different areas of Fife.


Footnotes

1. Making local information easy to find is aim of the ALISS (Access to Local Information to Support Self Management) a Scottish Government Project, see www.aliss.org
2. P 37 and p 63; Bradwell, P., Reeves, R.; Demos (October 2008); Networked Citizens; www.demos.co.uk/files/Network%20citizens%20-%20web.pdf
3. General Practitioners at the Deep End: Glasgow University, September 2009 http://www.rcgp.org.uk/college_locations/rcgp_scotland/initiatives/health_inequalities/deep_end_reports.aspx
4. Social prescribing in very deprived areas, p 350. British Journal of General Practice, May 2011
5. Managing Long Term Conditions, Auditor General for Scotland, p4, Audit Scotland www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/.../nr_070816_managing_long_term.pdf
6. ALISS Access to Local Information to Support Self Management, ALISS Health Literacy Report: http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/ALISS-Health-Literacy-Report-2010-01.pdf
7. General Practitioners at the Deep End: Glasgow University, September 2009 http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_146570_en.pdf
8. See www.aliss.org

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