Federations

Wansworth PCT Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Posted on December 23, 2009. Filed under: Federations, Polyclinics, Reports/papers |

Wandsworth PCT | accessed 23 December 2009 [pdf] Par. 2. Primary care, polyclinics and polysystems. A major focus for the work of Wandsworth Primary Care Trust over the past two years has been the development of plans for primary care. In line with the NHS strategy document Healthcare for London, these plans have concentrated on the development of [...]

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LMCs draw up federation blueprint to protect against ‘APMS-hungry PCTs’

Posted on November 26, 2009. Filed under: Federations, News stories | Tags: |

Pulse | By Lilian Anekwe | 26 November 2009 Londonwide LMCs are working on new plans to help practices group together into federations to avoid small practices being ‘picked off’ by their PCTs. Small practices in London are increasingly being forced either to close or to aggregate into groups of practices, according to Londonwide LMCs chief [...]

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Safety in numbers: the rise of the GP federation

Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, Federations, News stories, Providers, Social enterprise | Tags: , |

Pulse | By Nigel Praities | 17 November 2009 It’s two years since the RCGP proposed its ‘roadmap’ for general practice, which envisaged practices working together as federations, pooling skills and resources to broaden the range of services on offer in primary care. Many at the time thought it would go the same way as the [...]

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MEETING ON ‘SUPER’ HEALTH CENTRE PLAN

Posted on July 28, 2009. Filed under: Federations, GP-led health centres, News stories |

Southwark News | 27 July 2009 By Anthony Phillips (news@southwarknews.org) The results of consultation on whether to create four ‘super’ health care centres in the borough are set to be revealed in a public meeting tonight. If given the go ahead, the new centres could radically change the way GPs operate in the borough, with longer opening [...]

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Federations in action: The St Helens experience

Posted on April 17, 2009. Filed under: Federations, News stories, Providers |

RCGP News | February 2009 Four general practices in St Helens are showing how the federated model can work to improve GP training. Aspect Health Ltd is made up of four training practices who decided to pool their resources last summer following the RCGP’s publication of Primary Care Federations: Putting Patients First and amid the backdrop of Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS.  [...]

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