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Ensuring Access to High-Quality Primary Care in the United States

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A subgroup of the National Academies' Standing Committee on Primary Care will document access challenges to primary care across the lifespan and produce a report with recommendations for federal policy makers and other stakeholders to consider with the purpose of ensuring greater access to primary care for everyone in the United States who seeks it.

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Standing Committee on Primary Care will examine the current status of access to high-quality primary care in the United States and assess the progress in implementing the access recommendations from the 2021 National Academies report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care. The committee will also document new access challenges that have emerged since 2021. The committee will develop a report with updated recommendations focusing on federal policy changes to accelerate and ensure access to high-quality primary care for everyone in the United States who seeks it.

Contributors

Sponsors

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Nursing

American Board of Family Medicine

American College of Physicians

Arnold Ventures

California Health Care Foundation

Commonwealth Fund

Healing Works Foundation

Milbank Memorial Fund

National League for Nursing

New York State Health Foundation

Samueli Foundation

Society for General Internal Medicine

Staff

Marc Meisnere

Lead

Makeda Haughton

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