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Guest Blog – Dr Aumran Tahir: The B word
In implementing data analytics in our practices, it is worth making the point that our objective isn’t to simply drive down costs, even though you will be pleased to hear that this is often a welcome result. We use IT to create solutions that analyse data and provide useful insights that help improve patient care quality, or provide the infrastructure necessary to manage General Practice efficiently, supporting our front-line staff sustainably. Read more »Since 2015 the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) have supported the setup of over 230 primary care homes (PCHs) exemplifying par excellence what primary care networks (PCNs) can achieve. By 2023/24, PCNs are expected to receive approx. £1.8bn which includes funding for 20,000 more health professionals Read more »Collaboration in General Practice – Primary Care Networks (Survey)
As a follow-on from the 2015 and 2017 RCGP/Nuffield Trust surveys, the RCGP is releasing a 2019 survey to understand the landscape and integration of primary care: What have been the changes and challenges? How are people progressing and operating in collaborations and networks? How much integration is there in the system and how much of it is led by primary care? Read more »Guest Blog: Avoidable Appointment Audit, Primary Care Foundation
Primary Care Foundation have developed a simple tool for reviewing workload within your practice and exploring how things might be managed differently in the future. So far, 450 practices have received reports and a new, fully automated web-based tool is now available at no cost to all practices across England, as all the development work has been fully funded by NHS England. All practices can register for the audit by going to the top of the Home Page of the Primary Care Foundation website. Read more »Guest Blog: Working At Scale Supported by RCGP
Dr Ishani Patel (GP, Lantum) spoke with GP at Scale Clinical Champion and College Vice-Chair, Dr Mike Holmes to understand his ‘working at scale’ journey since 2002, from overcoming the challenges at practice level as a partner at Haxby Group to working with multiple practices at a Federation level as Chair of Nimbuscare Ltd in York. They also discussed how he is supporting GP providers across the country to implement their own ‘at scale’ vision with the RCGP. Read more »Wider Clinical Team in Practice
The Kings Fund report this month on Innovative Models of General Practice describes 5 core attributes of general practice with person-centred holistic care at the core, surrounded by accessible care, continuity of care, coordination of care and a community focus. The report goes on to describe some characteristics the authors believe will be needed for organisations to deliver this sort of care, including building and maintaining strong relationships between: Read more »Guest Blog by Dr Ishani Patel: The Digital Revolution in Primary Care
It is currently felt within NHS primary care organisations that sustainability and meeting the demands of the ever growing and ever complex population can only be implemented if providers can deliver certain elements of it at scale. NHS England’s GP Forward View is encouraging providers to become ‘larger scale’ either through joining forces or through growth to cover larger population groups. Read more »Form or Function, which comes first in new models of Primary care at Scale?
Do the circumstances practices and practitioners find themselves in due to funding, work load or workforce crises dictate that a new form is needed to enable primary care to be sustained? Or are organisations forming to meet specific needs of their population whether they be improving care pathways, efficiency, to increase opportunities for workforce development or have a stronger voice for primary care at local or regional level? Read more »Guest blog by Dr Geoff Schrecker – coming soon: changes to patients’ data choices. Are you ready?
OK, I know that data and information governance is not as exciting as clinical medicine but getting it right is essential, and getting it wrong could prove very expensive. On 25 May this year the General Data Protection Regulation comes into force, and the new National Data Opt-Out goes live the same day. Practices will need to understand and be ready for these changes. Read more »The focus of much the discussion around GP at Scale was initially based around the organisational structures being set up to deliver care to larger populations and what size these worked best, whether 30, 50, 100000 or bigger. As a result, all sizes of GP partnerships and organisations exist across the country with, as the Nuffield Trust RCGP survey described last year, most GPs working in several organisations of different size. Read more »Are federations in search of a purpose?
It was clear by the end of the day, having also considered with NHS collaborate some of the leadership challenges of GP at scale, that there is no single model that can be implemented throughout the country each organisation must evolve to meet the needs of its local population. Read more »‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’
I left the conference wondering how as new organisations form with time and energy set aside, to develop cultures that promote improvements, rather than becoming focussed on strategies and structures to achieve scale at pace? Read more »Can we deliver Enid-shaped care if we move to working in larger organisations?
In his latest blog post, Dr Michael Mullholand, RCGP Clinical Support Fellow for GP at Scale, reflects on whether new models of care at scale can enable GPs to deliver person-centred care. Read more »Does working at scale mean ‘big money, big carparks, big distances’?
In his first blog post, Dr Michael Mullholand, RCGP Clinical Support Fellow for GP at Scale, invites us to consider what quality at scale means to people and organisations working at scale. Read more »
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