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Dr Zal Alam is a Director & Intermediate Tier Lead for GP Care Services in Rochdale. The GP provider organisation has been instrumental in developing a care collaborative (with acute care, the local authority, the out-of-hours service and third party partners) that has established an Intermediate Care Service in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale. In this podcast Zal tells Ben that the scheme demonstrates how integration can work in practice, how clinical leadership drives the collaboration and the impact of the scheme in reducing admissions.

Show Notes

The new Intermediate Care Service in Rochdale – managing patients in the community (49secs)

GP Care Services – provider arm (2min 05secs)

GPs leading the model (2min 32secs)

How does the model work? (3mins 07secs)

The team (3mins 48secs)

Assessment at home (4mins 01secs)

Alternative to acute admission (4mins 36secs)

Community beds for the collaborative (5mins 04secs)

Not just for the frail and elderly and strong clinical leadership (5mins 34secs)

How does the clinical leadership work? (6mins 28secs)

GPs with background in acute medicine and A&E (7mins 16secs)

Recruiting separate GPs (7mins 55secs)

8.7% reduction in all admissions (8mins 32secs)

Great example of collaboration – the Future is Rochdale! (9mins 20secs)

The impact on local GPs (10mins 08secs)

From dementia to falls to over-medicalisation… (10mins 55secs)

The impact on home visits (11mins 56secs)

Attracting GPs to Rochdale (13mins 05secs)

The collaborative and long term plans for the Manchester area (14mins 07secs)

If you do it well – it makes work easier (15mins 17secs)

A dedicated team makes it more likely to succeed (16mins 06secs)

Finding out more (17mins 18secs)

GP Care Services website can be found here

And they can be contacted via email: gpcare.services@nhs.net