Year: 2022
Type: review
Abstract: AIM: To inform the primary care community about priorities for research in primary care as came up from the European project TO-REACH and to discuss transferability of service and policy innovations between countries. BACKGROUND: ealth services and systems. This EU-funded project has put health systems and services research higher on the European agenda and has led to the current development of a European 'Partnership Transforming Health and Care Systems'. METHODS: To identify research priorities, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. Policy documents and strategic roadmaps were searched, and priorities were mapped. Stakeholders were involved through national roundtable consultations and online consultations. Regarding transferability, we carried out a review of the literature, guided by a conceptual framework, and using a snowballing approach. FINDINGS: Primary care emerged as an important priority from the inventory, as are areas that are conducive to strengthening primary care, such as workforce policies. The large variation in service organisation and policy around primary care in Europe is a huge potential for cross-country learning. However, the simple transfer of primary care service and policy arrangements from one health system to another has a big chance to fail, unless known conditions for successful transfer are taken into account and gaps in our knowledge about transfer are resolved.
Institutions: Utrecht University, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Hertie School, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, University of Malta, National Institute of Public Health, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Language: English
Subfield: Family Practice
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,255
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W4286480150