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NAGPCNational Association of GP Co-operatives

Represents & Supports GP Co-operatives&

Promotes Quality OOH Patient Care

www.nagpc.org.uk

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Dr Mark Reynolds MBE NAGPC Chairman

Working with Co-operatives

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Anatomy of a Co-operative

Management & Staff

Doctors & Nurses

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Company Ltd by Guarantee

Members = Owners

ELECT

Council / Board

Employ Staff

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Articles & Memoranda of Association

Statutory Regulations

Company Law Requires Solvency

Directors Responsibility

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60 – 80 GPs

150 – 180 calls per thousand per year

25,000 calls per year

One every few minutes

One every few hours!

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Success !!

Power Triage

Effective Efficient General Practice

Elasticity and Capacity

Intimately Involved Management

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Quality From

Local people

Local professionals

Supporting each others

Paying each other

Watching each other!

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The Contract

Voluntary

More than GMS

New horizons

Great opportunity

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Strategic Choice

VS

Environmental Determinism

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D E T E R M I N I S MD E T E R M I N I S M +

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Free to do their own thing

- thrive

Free to do their thing to a

specification

Over regulated

Little innovation

Stalemate

Likely to fail

Little innovation

In a rut

(Hrebiniak + Joyce)

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Dangerous Times for Capacity

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Dangers

Insolvent trading

Provider destabilisation

Commissioning parochialism

Financial mindsets

In the box thinking

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Warning

Date X ?

! !

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Managing Short Term Risk

Support support support

Why tender ! Often little need

Commission, facilitate involve

Bigger than single PCO’s

Underwrite Solvency

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U N D E R S T A N D

or A & E, Ambulance

will be unhappy!

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Lets Get The Job Done !

Some facts:

• NHSD

• Triage

• Visiting

• Skill mix

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Structures

• Plurality

– Commercial

– LLPs

– Charity

– PCT

– CIC

– NHSD

– Ambulance

– A & E

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Structures - CLG

CIC/PIO/PIC constitution and ethos

NHS Pensions

Good vehicle for delivery

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C L G

Appropriate pay

Fast

Independent

Local

NHS driven

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Lets Get The Job Done

What’s in a name:

Co-op plus?

Clinical service provider?

Network co-ordinator?

Operations board?

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Patients

Power Triage

GP OOH a CIC CLG ?

A & ENHSD

Ambulance & PTS

W I C

NursingCommercialServices Mental

HealthS Services+ others

Daytime:Contract support

GPWSIAccess

Education

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Co-op / CSP

Governance

Up a gear !!

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Exciting, Challenging Agenda

Huge need for

information exchange

and networking

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We have done it once

We can do it again

But not alone

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NAGPCNational Association of GP Co-operatives

Represents & Supports GP Co-operatives&

Promotes Quality OOH Patient Care

www.nagpc.org.uk