The Academic Network of General Practice Amsterdam UMC (ANHA) aims to be an inspiring meeting place for family physicians, researchers and educators to improve care. This is a collaboration of more than 120 general practitioners practices in the Amsterdam region and the department of General practice of Amsterdam UMC.

Objective The ANHA aims to be an inspiring meeting place for family physicians, researchers and educators to innovate and optimize General Practice care. Thereby ANHA provides a testing ground for practice and academia from which new developments can take shape and to integrate research, education and care innovation with a database as a source of knowledge.

Participants

  • 125 general practitioners practices/health centers
  • more than 450 general practitioners with 600.000 patients in the greater Amsterdam region (including Almere and Haarlem East)
  • Amsterdam Health Centers Foundation Zorg voor Zuid
  • Amsterdam Health Centers Foundation SAG
  • Amsterdam Health Centers Foundation GAZO
  • Zorggroep Almere
  • Amsterdam General Practitioners Group ROHA
  • Department of General Practice Amsterdam UMC

Partners

  • University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)
  • UMC Utrecht
  • Maastricht UMC+
  • The academic networks of all other university hospitals
  • Amsterdamse Huisartsenalliantie (AHa)
  • SIGRA
  • ELAA
  • Gemeente Amsterdam
  • NHG
  • Collaboration with several internal department, such as department of Cardiology, Surgery, Vascular Medicine, Neurology, Public and Occupational Health and Medical Informatics

Examples of activities in the field of education and training

  • Many GP practices in the ANHA are training practices for GP training or student education
  • Organization of network meetings with a thematic approach, these can be seen as a form of continuing education
  • GP students conducting research with data from the ANHA database to improve care

Examples of activities in the field of research

  • Large number of successfully completed research projects
  • A longitudinal research database (20 years) with routine care data from over 600.000 patients
  • Research into innovative initiatives which, if proven effective, will be applied in collaboration with GPs
  • Mirror information for GPs as part of their quality policy
  • Research into innovative initiatives which, if proven effective, will be applied in collaboration with GPs

Examples of activities in the area of care (innovation)

  • Large database of routine care data available for research and evaluation of care innovation
  • Developing a method of quality improvement using mirror information
  • Small projects, evaluating innovations for their significance for healthcare
  • Creation of an Academic General Practice of the Future in collaboration with the municipality of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Health Centers Foundation GAZO

Coordinator: Ruud Stam, huisartsennetwerk@amsterdamumc.nl

Website:

-www.amsterdamumc.org/anha

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