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How can commissioners support the development of General Practice? Ben talks to Dr Isobel Hodkinson the principal clinical lead at Tower Hamlets CCG about their 15 year journey of transformation through network working to a borough-wide GP provider group.

Show Notes

Isobel describes how the care of people with type 2 diabetes became the “strong collective burning platform” to bring practices together (1 min)

The PCT supports practice engagement and performance manages the struggling practices (2mins 06secs)

The practices decide they should be uniformly “good enough” to provide quality care for diabetic patients (3mins 19secs)

Tackling poor performance is a pre-requisite for networking (4mins 03secs)

The CCG leads the networking decisions and imposes the geographical groupings (5mins 17secs)

A focus on population health creates the glue (6mins 55secs)

The CCG invests in General Practice (7 mins 20secs)

The model for diabetes becomes the model for other services (8mins 36secs)

The benefits (9mins)

How the network helps (9mins 23secs)

The networks control the money (10mins 09secs)

Using shared data to learn (10mins 45secs)

For long term conditions, don’t expect a quick return on investment (11mins 21secs)

But interim proxy measures begin to prove the benefits (12mins 23secs)

How did the collective vision come about (12mins 43secs)

The next stage – a GP provider body (13mins 24secs)

CCG commitment to provider development (14mins 02secs)

Developing the provider group – the future (14mins 52secs)