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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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

Rural practices in Malling PCN share CPCS rollout success

Two practices in the Malling Primary Care Network (PCN) have demonstrated the benefit of rural dispensing practices referring to the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS).

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/rural-practices-in-malling-pcn-share-cpcs-rollout-success/

Making the system work – general medical practice representative and formal structures in Cheshire

Introduction This short paper highlights the key developments in Cheshire to ensure there is an active and effective interface between general medical practice service (GMS) providers and the Integrated Care Board (ICB) of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System (ICS).

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/making-the-system-work-general-medical-practice-representative-and-formal-structures-in-cheshire/

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/

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/

Should general practice give up the independent contractor status and partnership model

Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Report All new GPs should be offered salaried employment as ‘primary care consultants,’ suggests a new think tank report. GP practices should also operate as ‘spokes’ to a central ‘neighbourhood health hub,’ according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Its new report proposes a 10-point plan reforming…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/should-general-practice-give-up-the-independent-contractor-status-and-partnership-model/

New rules will help but commissioners and practices need to keep talking about premises

In updating rules that guide the funding of GP premises, NHS England has been stretching the definition of “imminent” for more than two years. PCC premises and finance adviser Mike Simpson argues that even if the new premises costs directions (PCD) were available, they would not resolve all the issues commissioners and primary care providers…

https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/new-rules-will-help-but-commissioners-and-practices-need-to-keep-talking-about-premises/
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