RCGP Autumn 2018
- This report takes a deep dive into 6 GP at Scale organisations, prior to the development of Primary Care Networks, to understand the ways they are improving the quality of care provision and the efficiency of practice operation.
- The key results from the interviews include:
- Practices are merging for more than just financial efficiencies, economies of scale and recruitment challenges.
- Practices merge to deliver better care to their patients and to deliver care in the communities.
- There is a difficult balance to develop between access to care and continuity of care, different models of care are developing across the country to address this.
- Through coming together, at scale organisations have more opportunities to innovate and to support patients in different ways, such as through multi-disciplinary team meetings, group appointments, increasing appointment times, the use of allied health professionals in practice and for home visits, increased access, and improved estates.
