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The Care Group Board has today agreed to support practices who have taken on trainee practice nurses through our Open Doors scheme.
Health Education England (HEE) pays for a proportion of the trainee's salary but the funding will not arrive until April 2017. Six students have already been appointed under the scheme and their practices are currently paying their full salary. In order to protect the practice cashflows, the Board has decided to fund the salary reimbursements, which can be recouped when the funding from the HEE arrives. Any of the practices hosting one of the six students can seek this support by contacting Open Doors lead, Vicky Souster at: [email protected]
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THT, CCG, STP, TST, LMC, GPCG…… All clear? Yeah, we thought so.
The problem: lots is happening, and we all have varying degrees of understanding/engagement with the changes that are about to hit Tower Hamlets general practice with the power of gale-force winds. Some of us feel engaged and in the driving seat; others wish that communication worked better, so that there was a clearer idea of what our joint direction is. Others yet are asking, is there even a joint direction?! The General Practice Summit: a few of your curious and concerned colleagues have now met a few times to discuss this dilemma (we’re all signing this email). We come from practices, the care group, the CCG, Tower Hamlets Together. You know us (we think), and our intention was to crack heads to try and build a map of everything that is happening in Tower Hamlets at the moment. Initially, we just wanted to spot duplication so this could be avoided. Within half an hour, we wanted to work together to shape things in a way that felt meaningful to all of us – that includes to anyone reading this email. So we thought, can we get everyone together and test our feelings of “joined-upedness”? Create a vision that unites us, and get an idea of some of the areas we will want to work on together? Commissioners and providers? No, thank you. We are passionate providers, with a strong CCG. But please: no commissioners, no providers. This is so 1990s. Never are you in a meeting where you hear “oh yes, I really love this helpful commissioner/provider split”. We are all in Tower Hamlets for the same reason: to make a difference to our patients. A difference they can feel, a difference that matters, a difference we can measure. So let’s all get in the room as system providers, and decide our future together. Clinicians, admin staff, commissioning bods – all of us bring talent and richness. This is massively important: it’s about starting a new journey where our vision is to cooperate and design within the resources we have. No being done to: let’s sit down and draw this picture together. Let’s start now. What the summit will look like: We’re going to start with data. We’re going to start with introductions. We’re going to catch up with each other and get, as much as possible, onto the same page. And then we’ll try to articulate what we want from our joint working into a shared vision and purpose. Nothing long. Nothing wishy-washy. Something that feels powerful, meaningful, and points to our future direction. By the end of the day, we hope that: a) We will all know what’s happening, and who is who. More or less. Who is tackling what, basically. b) We will feel like one group, with one shared vision and purpose underpinning our work together, because together we are stronger. We will have more trust. c) We will have articulated this vision and purpose. Into words, not (just?) hugs. d) We will have drafted the skeleton of a way forward. Something like, a list of things we want to tackle jointly. (GP recruitment, anyone?) This summit is not the end: it’s the first step of a joint journey, the first step of many. But we feel we need to start somewhere, and we need take time to build a solid, shared foundation together. Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing: let’s kick off the Forming part of our journey. The rest will come. Who should come: OK, this is important. Everyone should come. This is about nurses. It’s about receptionists knowing what’s going on, and sharing their wisdom. It’s about salaried GPs, and partners, and people who locum here, who locum lots. It’s about healthcare assistants, medical assistants, assistant practitioners, practice pharmacists and physician associates. But here’s the problem – we don’t have all their email addresses. So, action, please forward this on to all those lovely members of your staff who we don’t have mailing lists for. Other actions: We’ll be sending around a spot of homework before the summit. Just to see what your sense of a joint purpose might be, to hear your good news stories, your concerns, and to see whether you’d be happy to share any internal vision and purpose statements you might have. Look out for this – it’s not a group of “us” organising something for “you”, so we are really keen you take a moment to engage in the event by providing some background info first. Just a spot of prep work. Skin in the game ‘n all that. If you want to do radical stuff, you need radical change. Let’s do it! We want to blow the roof off the biggest venue we can find – so please, it would be great if you could save this date, and start making plans for your staff to attend the summit. We’ll be asking for numbers when we send around the prep-work sheets. But let’s start a conversation and get some energy buzzing. Register now! Don’t delay. Go here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tower-hamlets-general-practice-summit-tickets-31635396322 And please forward to members of your teams. We want everyone to know about this and have the opportunity to be involved. To a great day, and well beyond that. Jackie Applebee (Tredegar, LMC) Chris Banks (CEO GP Care Group and SRO Tower Hamlets Together) Jenny Cooke (CCG) Mike Fitchett (Island Health, GP Care Group) Joe Hall (Bromley by Bow Health Partnership & St Paul’s Way, GP Care Group) Isabel Hodkinson (Tredegar, CCG) Sue Hogarth (Tower Hamlets Together) Ian Jackson (XX Place, PM Forum) Balvinder Kullar (St Stephen’s, PM Forum) Chris Ley (Network 7, GP Care Group) Dean O’Callaghan (Network 1, GP Care Group) Virginia Patania (Jubilee Street, CCG) NHS England has today announced that Tower Hamlets Together will receive £3,945,000 of newfunding to support the ongoing development and delivery of its vanguard projects during 2017/18.
The vanguards are partnerships of NHS, local government, voluntary, community and other organisations that are implementing plans to improve the healthcare people receive, prevent ill health and save funds. Considerable progress has been made since the vanguards were launched in 2015 and there is emerging evidence that they are making significant improvements at a local level. In addition to the funding, Tower Hamlets Together will continue to receive support from NHS England and other national bodies to implement their plans, including how they harness new technology including apps and shared computer systems. They are also receiving help to develop their workforce so that it is organised around patients and their local populations. Samantha Jones, Director of the New Care Models Programme said: “The vanguards are making great progress and have already made a tangible positive impact on the lives of patients and the working lives of staff. 2017/18 is a crucial year for the vanguards, in particular how we further spread their work across the wider NHS and care services. This funding, as well as the support we offer to them, will help them to continue to move at pace.” Dr Phil Bennett-Richards, local GP and Chair of Tower Hamlets Together, said: “We are very pleased with the progress we’ve made to improve the way care is provided to people here in Tower Hamlets. By working together to develop new and innovative approaches to providing care, we are bridging the gaps between health and social care services and ensuring the needs of patients are at the heart of everything we do. The result will be a health and social care system that is not only operating more efficiently, but is far more responsive to the health needs of our local communities.” Nationally, the total funding allocated matches that of 2016/17 and will be matched by funds and resources from the vanguards themselves. New models of care, including the work of the vanguards, are key to the delivery of sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) which are being developed across the country. In order to secure their allocated funds, vanguards will need to meet a number of conditions including: spread of their new care models within and across STPs, including:
On Monday the 21st of November 2016 we held our second annual general meeting. The Board reported on the considerable progress that has been made over the past year, which included the establishment of the four seven-day access hubs, the successful bid for and mobilisation of health visiting services, the successful bid for community health services, which are due to go live on 1st April 2017, and leadership of the borough's multi-speciality community provider NHS vanguard programme. We have also run a number of services for the borough's practices, and recently published our improved offer of "at scale" services.
A copy of our second annual report is posted in the Publications section of this website. |
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