Development of GP locality networks in a single CCG: Mid & South Essex STP

Development of GP locality networks in a single CCG

Objectives

Southend CCG appointed Attain to support the development of collaborative primary care working-at-scale within local GP practices.
This involved:

• Working in partnership with the local authority to ensure harmonisation with the evolving service model for complex care
• Ensuring that locally determined priorities were identified alongside national priorities outlined in the GP Forward View

What we did

Our support involved:

• Identified local demographic and health outcome related drivers for service change and shared these with GP practices to provide context for the discussions about service development
• Undertook a genuine process of co-production and developed service models, service specifications and business cases for new locality-based services
• We established locality group project teams and drafted an initial MoU for GP practices to work together on a locality basis

Our impact

Our results included:

• A local GP practice acted as host employer for a locality-wide home visiting & triage service with implementation overseen by the locality group
• An extended access hub model was developed and implementation overseen by the CCG primary care team
• A robust collaborative working model was established in one locality which will be spreading to the remaining three areas

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