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Laura Sharpe and Paula Beare work for the successful City and Hackney GP Confederation which is formed of 43 GP practices. In this podcast they explain to Ben how they gained GP commitment to the confederation, how the confederation operates and the ambitious plans they have for the future.

Show Notes

Laura explains how the confederation came about in spring 2014 (55secs)

A City and Hackney-wide organisation is mooted (1mins 33secs)

A history of close working dictates the size of the confederation (1secs 56secs)

Much of the development was based on trust (2mins 21secs)

Laura’s background of working in the boroughs developed trust (2mins 53secs)

Laura joins for a few months – two years ago (3mins 38secs)

Getting started (4mins 08secs)

Early contracts agreed with the confederation (4mins 37secs)

Commissioners made a strategic decision on standards and coverage (5mins 25secs)

Broaching performance management (6mins 25secs)

The practices pay a membership fee (7mins 41secs)

Modelling the pay-back (8mins 34secs)

Maintaining the enthusiasm (9mins 17secs)

Employing a “dream team” for support (9mins 59secs)

They “love the confederation” (11mins 26secs)

Focus on securing contracts or helping practices? (12mins 11secs)

Delivering the contracts (13mins 41secs)

Paula explains the size of the contracts (14mins 50secs)

The Board of the Community Interest Company (16mins 04secs)

Hugely ambitious dreams for the future (16mins 32secs)

A conference to share the learning (18mins 06secs)

How will the conference work (19mins 30secs)

Booking a place on the conference (20mins 29secs)

The conference website is www.gpconfederations.co.uk

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