Slides presented at the recent education seminar held at the King's Fund, London on 9 October 2014.
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5. New ways of working in primary care
Greg Cairns
Director of Primary Care Strategy
Londonwide LMCs
Shanee Baker
Director
LMC Law Limited
6. New ways of working for
www.lmc.org.uk
General Practice
Greg Cairns
Director of Primary Care Strategy, Londonwide LMCs
Shanee Baker
Director, LMC Law
7. The world is changing
• Multi/Co-morbidity; ageing population
• Financial pressures (£6.5 billion gap in
London to 2020); cost-cutting
• Focus on integrated care, LTCs, co-ordinated
www.lmc.org.uk
care
• GP Access and availability
• Avoiding unplanned admissions, A&E
admissions
8. www.lmc.org.uk
And so is the NHS!
• Systemic changes; commissioning and delivery at
wider scale and pace; new organisations
• Reduced specialist care, hospitalisation,
pathways/networks of care
• Shifting services; more community-based care
• Accountable/Integrated Care
• Outcomes-based commissioning
• Merged health and social care budgets; Better
Care Fund
9. www.lmc.org.uk
Challenges for GPs
• Falling income
• Contractual changes
• Capacity
• Primary Care development/infrastructure
• Expectations; assumptions
• Competition, procurement
• Independent contractor, smaller practices?
10. www.lmc.org.uk
Partnerships
• Before focusing on the new, strengthen
the old !
• Protect Partners
• Protect Core Contracts
• Reinforce your partnership agreements
• Old agreements make not be fit for
purpose: take into account CCG
membership obligations, provider network
organisations, new contract amendments
11. www.lmc.org.uk
Protecting Core
• Mergers – GMS/PMS
• Shared Resource and working
collaboratively: staff/administration
• May mean bigger partnerships or
agreements between individual
partnerships
• The message is to try not to lose your core
to APMS.
12. Network Provider Organisations
• Different models: e.g. Company Limited,
Community Interest Company, Super-partnerships,
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LLPs
• Focus is on having a more robust entity:
strength in numbers, more expertise, more
resource, more regulated.
• Important for bidding/tendering for contracts
• Commissioners want to deal with a single
identifiable entity.
13. www.lmc.org.uk
So - What does that
really mean for GPs?
• Practices can no longer work in isolation
• Limitation of risk and liability
• More regulated
• Need to strengthen partnership
agreements
• Need to engage to survive
• Contracts (e.g. LES’s) not longer
guaranteed
14. www.lmc.org.uk
The GOOD NEWS
• GPs have the expertise
• GPS have the patients and the relationships
• GPs have the premises
• Support IS available from your LMC who
have broadened their remit to cater for new
requirements and needs – much of the initial
advice is available as part of your core
membership – make use of it before making
decisions about your future.
15. What? why? and how?
- the future of General Practice
Dr Tim Ballard
Vice Chair
Royal College of GPs
16. Why, what and how?
The future for
English General Practice
Dr Tim Ballard Vice-Chair
Royal College of General Practitioners
9th October 2014
17. Why?
Why - are we where we are?
Shipman
The 2004 Contract
Sustainability & Austerity
Changing Demography
The personalised Society
The Health & Social Care Act 2012
18. What?
What - are the pressures for change?
A Call to Action (NHSE)
The Future Hospital Report (RCP)
The Dalton Review
The Urgent & Emergency Care Review
19. What?
What - are the pressures for change?
Specialised Services in OOH Settings
The Oldham Report
Chen – Med & Segmentation of Primary Care
General Practice Delivered at Scale (NHSE)
CQC
20. How?
How can the Profession Respond?
2022 - A Vision for General Practice (RCGP)
The inquiry into Patient Centred Care (RCGP)
Put Patients First Campaign (RCGP)
Your GP Cares (BMA)
21. How?
How - do we know we are making
progress?
The Labour Party Conference
The Conservative Party Conference
The RCGP Conference
22. How?
How – should the profession respond?
A salaried service – APMS and private
providers?
Vertical integration or Integrated Care
Organisations?
Independent contractor status?
23. How?
How – should the profession respond?
Networks and Federations, Networks and
Federations, Networks and Federations,
Networks and Federations, Networks and
Federations, Networks and Federations,
Networks and Federations, Networks and
Federations, Networks and Federations,
Networks and Federations
24. Why?
Why – are Federations & Networks the
answer?
Enable Professional Control
Keep the traditional patient facing feel of GP
Demonstrate the will to tackle variability
Control Segmentation
Control the way we work with Secondary Care
25. How?
How – do we organise ourselves?
The Use of Co-Commissioning
The Whole systems Integrated Care
Toolkit
26. Federate - Yes
- so why not merge?
Andrew Lockhart-Mirams
Founding Partner
Lockharts Solicitors
29. Some caution is needed if you
want to go as far as merging–
markedly different characteristics
• Liabilities
• Aims
• Succession
• Disposals
• Premises
• Retirement
• Staff
• Loss of independence
• Different contract
structure
Lockharts (c) 2014 29
30. Liabilities
• Compare
• Liability as shareholder, and
• Joint and several liability as a partner
Lockharts (c) 2014 30
31. Aims
• “Partnership is the relation which subsists between
persons carrying on a business in common with a
view of profit” s.1 Partnership Act 1890
• There are totally different “feels” to a provider
company
Lockharts (c) 2014 31
32. Reality
• Succession – in practice and with patients
• Loss of independence
• Contract structure
• Behind the company façade
• Premises
• Staff
Lockharts (c) 2014 32
33. Disposals
• Straight succession to new partners
• Retirement and dispersal
• An “acquisition”
Lockharts (c) 2014 33
34. Some caution is needed
- lastly
• Because it could just happen by accident!
• It is a matter of fact and not form
• BUT
• If it “fits” it could be a good thing
Lockharts (c) 2014 34
35. How Lockharts can help
• Over 30 years experience helping general practitioners
• “Full service” healthcare team for providers covering all
aspects of partnership, surgery premises, employment
contract work and contentious issues
• Extensive understanding of general practice issues and
ambitions and detailed knowledge of regulation, policy,
funding and contracts
• Accredited mediators helping with facilitation
• Structural advice and implementation of mergers and
acquisitions
• Only acts for providers and never for commissioners
Lockharts (c) 2014 18
37. Maximising Practice Income
Jane Betts
Director of Primary Care Strategy
Londonwide LMCs
Vicky Ferlia
Director of GP Support
Londonwide LMCs
38. Maximising Practice Income
Jane Betts – Director of Primary Care Strategy
Vicky Ferlia – Director of GP Support
www.lmc.org.uk
9th October 2014
39. www.lmc.org.uk
Background
NHS initiatives impacting on practice
income:
• Falling Investment
• GMS – MPIG reduction
• PMS – National Contract Review
• GP Provider Unit Contracting
• No new premises investment
40. What can Practices Do?
www.lmc.org.uk
Financial health check to:
• Establish your current financial position –
benchmark yourself against other practices
• Minimise expenditure
• Maximise income opportunities
• Access all possible funding
41. 1. Accurate List Size
• Essential for calculations
• Regular list maintenance
(FP69s)
• Agree & address anomalies with
NHSE
• Ensures viability
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42. 2. Understand Your Practice’s
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Expenditure
• Clinical and non-clinical staff (inc.
partners’ drawings & locum costs) -
largest cost
• Indemnity and subscriptions
• Premises costs – rent reviews &
service charges
• Utilities, cleaning & maintenance
• Disposables & consumables
43. 3. Understand Core Practice
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Income
• GMS/PMS/APMS Contract Payments –
Open Exeter
• DES payments – CQRS & manual
claims
• QoF Payments
• Must have robust tracking systems in
place
45. www.lmc.org.uk
Next Steps (1)
• Undertake a full financial assessment of
your practice
• Set annual budget & monitor regularly
• Monitor locum and other costs
• Review all utilities and other contracts
• Understand NHSE’s & your CCG’s claim
process
• Ensure all ES and other claims are
submitted in time as appropriate
46. www.lmc.org.uk
Next Steps (2)
• Ensure maximum possible achievement
on QOF/ESs etc
• Ensure practice evidence and audit trail
is clear
• Are there penalties in place practice is
unaware of? Challenge claw backs as
necessary
• Review your skill mix in line with practice
service requirements
47. www.lmc.org.uk
Next steps (3)
If you discover financial discrepancies, or are
chasing payments, or are being threatened with
claw backs:
Seek advice from the LMC, BEFORE
discussing with NHSE or CCG.
Contact:
gpsupport@lmc.org.uk
82. EXPENSES
MOBILITY
SMOKING
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
HEALTH & SAFETY
HOLIDAYS
POLICIES
LONE WORKER
CAR
HARASSMENT
LANGUAGE
RIGHT TO SEARCH
ALCOHOL
INTERNET
E-MAIL
WASTAGE
LAY OFF
DRUGS
MAIL
STRESS
NOTICE
MEDIA
BULLYING
HYGIENE
ABSENCE
MOBILE PHONE
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
LEAVE
DRESS CODE
83. Application for Employment Return to Work Interview Form
Exit Interview
Parental Leave Request
Holiday Request
Holiday Records
DOCUMENTATION
SSP Withheld Notification of Absence
Self Certification
Equal Opportunity Monitoring
Employee Records
Change of Personal Details Proof of Identity
Disciplinary Record
Staff Appraisals
Induction Checklist
Interview Rating
Other Employment Request
84. GRAVITAS
WITHIN YOUR BUSINESS
it’s not about taking oneself
seriously – it’s about taking what
one does seriously.
85. Enables you to:
Manage staff
Optimise staff performance
Make effective decisions
100. QAD Architects ▪ www.q-ad.co.uk
2.0 Design Concept
PRIORY MEDICAL GROUP
• Consider Priory Medical Centre as hub.
• Radiate links to Group Surgeries
• Establish brand / association identity
115. Why is this important?
• Bedrock of the medical model
• Improves outcomes for patients
• Improves efficiency
• Improves cost-effectiveness
• Improves patient satisfaction
• Improves clinician satisfaction
• Improves organisational satisfaction!
116. What are we trying to do?
Improve
outcome
Improve
experience
Optimise
per capita
cost
Improve
outcome
Improve
patient
experience
Be a great
place to work
Optimise
per
capita
cost
IHI Triple Aim
With thanks to David Fillingham
117. n=1 commissioning
There are over 300 million consultations per year in England.
What happens in them is important!
Overarching factors: Setting, level of access, time of day, time available, options
available to clinician and patient, social and cultural context
Clinician Patient Outcome
Education & training
Policy & guidelines
Custom and practice
Personality
Attitude to risk
Level of engagement
Available time
Decision support systems
Shared understanding
Age, sex, social class
Culture
Intelligence
Wealth Experience
Personality
Information
Social marketing
Product marketing
Advice
Review
Immediate treatment
Prescription
Further investigations
Referral for 2nd opinion
Referral for treatment
119. Property and Estates Facilities
Management Management
• Consolidation of estates
resources
• Estates management
• Maximising the estate resource
• Space utilisation
• Re-modelling premises
• Aligned to standardisation and
group purchasing
• Property enabling strategy
• Outsourced group wide FM
• An ‘average’ practice manager will
spend half a day a week or 24 days
a year on FM
• On a PM salary of 30Kpa the
average practice is spending £3000
per year
• And whilst they are doing this they
can’t be doing anything more
useful or value adding
• Over a group/federation
outsourcing FM the savings are
considerable
123. Integrated management data
Monthly Performance Summary
Centre 1 Centre 2 Centre 3 Centre 4 Centre 5 Centre 6 Centre 7 Green Amber Red
Cost, Effectiveness and Efficiency
Registered patient list target v actual monthly growth
Target: +4
Actual: +3
Target: +28
Actual: -102
Target: +12
Actual: +5
Target: +12
Actual: +28
Target: +35
Actual: +37
Target: +44
Actual: +32
Target: +116
Actual: +135
100% + of target 95 - 99% of target less than 95%
Walk in volume targeted monthly walk in volume
Target: 6825
Actual: 6018
Target: 840
Actual: 865
Target: 3175
Actual: 2694
100% 95-99% 0 - 94%
Staff Costs % of monthly budget, inc. locum costs 143% 102% 125% 102% 102% 95% 108% 0 - 100% 101 - 105% 106% +
Locum Usage Locum spend as % of total staff costs 6% 3% 20% 14% 28% 51% 27%
Private Income % of monthly target achieved 28% 102% 65% 80% 146% 11% 160% 100% 95-99% 0 - 94%
Enhanced Services % of monthly target achieved 100% 95-99% 0 - 94%
Centre 1 Centre 2 Centre 3 Centre 4 Centre 5 Centre 6 Centre 7 Green Amber Red
Patient Care
QOF % at month end 63.77% 61.98% 61.98% 61.64% 66.46% 72.31% 65.00%
DNA % % DNA of all appointments 10% 4% 10% 12% 10% 11% 8% 9% - 10 - 11% 12%+
Patient Satisfaction Token board,% of patients satisfied or better 76% 88% 86% 90% 75% 100% 75% + 65 - 74% 0 - 64%
Complaints Number of complaints received 2 2 2 1 4 5 0 0-3 4 - 5 5 +
Compliments Number of compliments received 11 6 1 1 18 6 17 2+ 1 0
SER's Number of SER's submitted 8 13 6 5 17 2 14 2+ 1 0
Audit Compliance Total Audit compliance for the quarter % 86% 91% 95% 94% 98% 92% 97% 90% + 80 - 89% -80%
Registered Patient List
Cost
Centre 7
Centre 6
Centre 5
Centre 4
Centre 3
Centre 2
Patient Care
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
Unscheduled Care Performance
For information only
To be measured from September
18
10
19
Monthly Group Staff Spend
25
17
£600,000
£500,000
£400,000
£300,000
£200,000
£100,000
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Number of complaints
Total OMC Number of Complaints
80% 85% 90% 95% 100% 105% 110%
Centre 1
Monthly Staff Costs
Centre 1
Centre 2
Centre 3
Centre 4
Centre 5
Centre 6
Centre 7
£120,000
£100,000
£80,000
£60,000
£40,000
£20,000
£0
Monthly Salaried Cost v Locum Cost
Centre 1 Centre 2 Centre 3 Centre 4 Centre 5 Centre 6 Centre 7
Salaried Spend (£)
Locum Spend (£)
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Walk in's per week
Centre 1
Target
Actual
Last Year
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Walk in's per week
Centre 2
Target
Actual
Last Year
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Walk In's per week
Centre 3
Target
Actual
Last Year
4600
4550
4500
4450
4400
4350
4300
4250
5050
4950
4850
4750
4650
4550
4450
4350
4250
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21
List Size
Centre 2
FY13/14 Target
Actual list size
4200
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21
List Size
Centre 1
FY13/14 Target
Actual list size
2700
2650
2600
2550
2500
2450
2400
2350
2300
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21
List Size
Centre 3
FY13/14 Target
Actual list size
10000
9950
9900
9850
9800
9750
9700
9650
9600
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21
List Size
Centre 4
FY13/14 Target
Actual list size
2100
2050
2000
1950
1900
1850
1800
1750
1700
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21
List Size
Centre 5
FY13/14 Target
Actual list size
7200
7150
7100
7050
7000
6950
6900
6850
6800
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21
List Size
Centre 6
FY13/14 Target
Actual list size
3400
3350
3300
3250
3200
3150
3100
3050
3000
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21
List Size
Centre 7
FY13/14 Target
Actual list size
14
17
2
8
13
5
6
0
4
6
2 2
1
2
17
18
1
11
6
1 1
0
Centre 1 Centre 2 Centre 3 Centre 4 Centre 5 Centre 6 Centre 7
Number received
SER's, Complaints & Compliments
Total SER's
Total Complaints
Total Compliments
100%
75% 76%
88% 90%
86%
0%
Centre 1 Centre 2 Centre 3 Centre 4 Centre 5 Centre 6 Centre 7
Percentage of satisfied patients
Patient Satisfaction
£0
April May June July August
124. Contact details
Dr Jim Gardner
Group Medical Director
jimgardner@onemedical.co.uk
Telephone: 0113 284 3158
Mobile: 07794 965874
125. Q & A Panel
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126. What happens next?
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