Presentation at the RCGP East Anglia faculty annual symposium. Reflections on the current pressures facing general practice, the vision presented in the NHS Five Year Forward View and some of the ways in which practices can lead for the future
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The future of
general
practice
Dr Robert Varnam
Head of general practice development
robert.varnam@nhs.net
@robertvarnam
King’s Lynn
9 June 2015
8. Health & wellbeing-promoting care
‘Right access’ Consistently high quality
Holistic, personalised, proactive, coordinated care
Better joined-up care for a population of registered people
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‘Wider primary care, at scale’
11. Direct specialist advice.
Condition management training.
Shared records.
Care coordination.
Hospital in-reach.
Care home ward rounds.
Virtual ward.
Primary care-employed specialists.
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Funding
Co-commissioning
Increased funding
Fairer funding
Care innovations
Prime Minister’s
Challenge Fund
innovations
Workforce
Recruitment, retention,
returners
Nursing, pharmacy
Wellbeing workforce
Multispeciality Community Providers (MCPs)
Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS)
New organisational forms
Infrastructure
Premises
Digital primary care
New deal for primary care
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Multispeciality Community Providers
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GP
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GP
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GP
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Specialists Pharmacists
Community provider
SC provider
VCS
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VCS
MH Trust
VCS
VCS
VCS
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Primary and Acute Care Systems
Community
provider
SC
provider
VCSMH Trust
Acute
provider
GP
practice
GP
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GP
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GP
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GP
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GP
practice
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1. What kind of care?
• Holistic, comprehensive, cradle-to-grave family care
• Health & wellbeing-promoting care
• ‘Right access’ (time, place, person, care)
• Consistently high quality
• Holistic, personalised, proactive, coordinated care
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2. What kind of work?
• Segmented (one size does not fit all)
• Multiprofessional teamworking
• bring new skills
• work to the top of our skills
• Partnership with patients & community
• Longer consultations with fewer patients
• GP not always 1st port of call
• Direct access diagnostics
• ‘Pull-in’ specialist advice
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3. What kind of practice?
Big enough for:
• meaningful accountability
• resilience
• collaboration
• broader workforce
• minor illness nurses, pharmacist, MH practitioner,
welfare rights, OT, physio, LTC nurses, HCA, PA
• pull-in power
• economies of scale
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3. What kind of practice?
Competent:
• develop the workforce
• look after the workforce
• continually develop people
• highly skilled business planning & operational
management
• service improvement
• clinical governance
• clinical care
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3. What kind of practice?
Personal:
• deliberately designed systems, teamwork & processes
to promote continuity
• proactive coordinated care
• connecting patients with non-medical support
• using tech to promote wellbeing, self-care and
management
• known in the community