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Mark Newbold is managing director of Our Health Partnership, a super partnership of 32 GP practices in Birmingham covering a population of 280,000. This is the third time we’ve checked in with Mark to talk about OHP’s progress and he tells Ben about their in-house locum system, quality support for practices, new locality structure and potential growth. Our first podcast with Mark can be accessed here and our second (from May 2016) can be accessed here.

Show Notes

One Year On (1min 37secs)

Making life better for patients and partners (2mins 12secs)

In-house locum system (2mins 34secs)

Using our own doctors (3mins 24secs)

A software partner (4mins 08secs)

The benefits of the system (4mins 48secs)

A devolved model (5mins 27secs)

A pool of salaried doctors (6mins 24secs)

Quality support for practices and CQC (7mins 11secs)

Developing a quality monitoring system (8mins 12secs)

Recruiting a quality officer through the savings (9mins 03secs)

Full support for OHP taking a larger role (9mins 34secs)

A “quality support offer” to struggling practices (10mins 23secs)

Spreading good practice (11mins 14secs)

Harder than in an Acute Trust! (11mins 58secs)

Working within the levy of £2 a patient (12mins 28secs)

Taking on other practices (13mins 36secs)

Expanding outside Birmingham (14mins 06secs)

A dozen practices want to join (15mins 11secs)

Size bringing efficiencies – merged accounts (16mins 27secs)

Single accounting was a founding principle (17mins 54secs)

Involving practice managers (18mins 27secs)

Is it still a “grass roots movement”? (19mins 03secs)

A system of localities to keep the Board in touch (19mins 35secs)

Advice for other practices (14mins 49secs)

Involving practice managers (18mins 27secs)

Transfer resource from the CCG? (21mins 11secs)

How have the changes in general practice affected OHP (23mins 05secs)

Engaging the LMCs (24mins 02secs)

“Bringing about the development of general practice into the new organisations” (25mins 24secs)

What will it look like on the ground? (26mins 12secs)

The MCP contract (27mins 19secs)

Collaborating with the community trust? (28mins 54secs)

Making more of the GPFV (29mins 31secs)

Looking to the future (30mins 46secs)