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A fascinating episode this week with Dr Tracey Vell, LMC lead in Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester is one of six areas working on a draft of the MCP contract and Tracey tells Ben about the progress being made, about the incentives for local GPs to get involved and about the surprising levels of engagement amongst GPs across the area.

Show Notes

Tracey explains how she became involved in the LMC (1min)

LMC involvement in the devolution process in Manchester (1min 49secs)

Representing general practice as providers (2mins 42secs)

Development of the MCP contract (4mins 13secs)

A flexible contract that allows many options for general practice (5mins 09secs)

General practice gets to choose the level at which they get involved (6mins 29secs)

How does size influence the care organisations (8mins 04secs)

The size of a hub (9mins 06secs)

The size of a “neighbourhood” (9mins 27secs)

Practices within a neighbourhood can choose how involved they are (9mins 44secs)

What are the incentives to get involved? (10mins 33secs)

How estates are dealt with (12mins 08secs)

Corporate indemnity for a hub – rather than an individual (14mins 21secs)

Is the funding dependent on the new contractual arrangements? (15mins 43secs)

The difficult issues (16mins 39secs)

Where are the agreements at now? (18mins 56secs)

What level of sign up has been achieved? (20mins 04secs)

What advice for other areas considering the contract (21mins 42secs)