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Getting the model right – Trusts working with primary care

For this issue’s interview, we talk to Dr Berge Balian who is Medical Director of Symphony Healthcare Services (SHS), an NHS organisation that operates and supports 20 GP surgeries covered by 16 GP contracts in Somerset and Devon.

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/getting-the-model-right-trusts-working-with-primary-care/

Practice support

PCC supporting general practice – new for 2024 During 2024 we will be sharing enhanced support that we are developing for general practice as over recent months there has been no sign of any of the demands on primary care slowing down. The access agenda and need to recover confidence in general practice has driven…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/practice-support/

Considering a commercial approach to your GP practice

As we learn how to multi-task dealing with the post pandemic and practice workload, many GP practices are focusing on their business strategies. With increasing pressure on the NHS, GP practices are considering how they can maintain excellent patient care, while maximising profits and drawings as well as improving work/life balance for partners.

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/considering-a-commercial-approach-to-your-gp-practice/

Reflections on a ‘new’ NHS and its impact on general practice

Legislation now quietly going through Parliament will significantly impact on the longer-term shape of general practice. Integrated care systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area.

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/reflections-on-a-new-nhs-and-its-impact-on-general-practice/

Harnessing the patient resource

Helen Northall wrote encouragingly in this month’s edition of Insight about informing and engaging patients. I agree with her.  But as a PPG chair, I think this can be taken one step further.

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/harnessing-the-patient-resource/

Learning sustains CPCS at General Practice Solihull Healthcare PCN

The General Practice Solihull (GPS) Healthcare primary care network (PCN) serves a population of 44,000 patients in low-deprivation areas of Birmingham and Solihull. It became an early adopter site for referring to the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) in March 2021 when it began a month-long pilot at Tanworth Lane and Village Surgeries. Following the…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/learning-sustains-cpcs-at-general-practice-solihull-healthcare-pcn/

General practice cashflow and Covid support fund

GP practices in England have been forced to dip into their own pockets to get themselves ‘Covid-19 ready’. Significant expenditure has been incurred by practices, be that from procuring PPE, staffing practices over bank holiday weekends, or upgrading the IT infrastructure of the practice and network. This article from Moore Scarrott Healthcare, nationwide specialist medical accountants…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/general-practice-cashflow-and-covid-support-fund/

Challenges for general practice

General medical practice needs to continually meet the warranted rising expectations of their registered patients. Inadequate access is perennially an issue and of parallel concern are lapses in quality of care and unwarranted variations in care provision. All these issues are equally of concern in all healthcare services worldwide. Recently there has been specific criticism…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/challenges-for-general-practice/

Tips for managing a practice managers workload

The workload for all practice manager’s is challenging, Jen Gough, an experienced practice manager shares her top tips.

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/tips-for-managing-a-practice-managers-workload/

When your pharmacy can give you a headache: a prescription for dispensing practices

As with any change, the drive to deliver primary care at scale carries with it the risk of unintended consequences. For a dispensing practice looking to merge or to move to shiny new premises, the loss of a valuable income stream from dispensing can be one. PCC primary care adviser Charlotte Goodson cautions that the…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/when-your-pharmacy-can-give-you-a-headache-a-prescription-for-dispensing-practices/

Practice support – successful service change

Working with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (part of NHS Wales) PCC advisers with expertise in planning for and leading change, communicating with patients, and the wider community delivered a series of workshops for individual practices to help them get to grips with the transformation agenda.

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/practice-support-successful-service-change/

Service improvement and change: it’s the simple things that get in the way

General practice is seeing some of the most challenging times, not least with the Covid pandemic, but also just delivering day to day care with what appears to be a tsunami of demand. What can often get lost in this scenario is how people respond to one another and inadvertently create difficulties within the practice…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/service-improvement-and-change-its-the-simple-things-that-get-in-the-way/
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