Heartbeat January 2019

Collaboration with local GP
partnerships announced
As Chief Executive, Toby Lewis
announced in his Friday message earlier
this month, we have been successful in
a bid to secure an Alternative Provider
Medical Services (APMS) contract to run
GP services in our area in collaboration
with local GP partnerships.
Toby explained: “Our Trust believes in
partnership and in diversity. So we will
work at scale with primary care in our
networks and alliances across Ladywood,
Perry Barr and Sandwell. And we
will continue to create deep working
relationships with valued GP colleagues
through mechanisms like these APMS
contracts. The new arrangements are a
chance to do, to learn and to build trust.
We want to move fast to provide the very
best long term conditions care for children
and for adults that redefine traditional
home and hospital boundaries.”
The contract takes effect on 1 April 2019.
We’re working with two partners – Your
Health Partnership across Sandwell and
Broadway Health Centre in Birmingham
– to deliver primary care services to
approximately 16,000 patients from Great
Bridge Health Centre, Parsonage Street and
Summerfield GP Practice.
Dr Simon Mitchell, Executive Partner
at Your Health Partnership said: “Your
Health Partnership is delighted to have the
opportunity to work with the hospital Trust
to deliver primary care services in West
Bromwich. We have a well-established
relationship with the Trust and believe the
opportunity to work together in this way
will create lots of exciting new ways to
improve the health of the patients whilst
continuing to deliver great quality general
practice.”
This new contract offers the potential to
shape primary healthcare provision locally.
Working with our partners, we’ll embrace
the opportunity to work differently which
may see some patients having their care
delivered by consultants in a primary care
setting, and seeing increased consultant-led
clinics opening closer to home, at their GP
surgery.
For many patients, they will see the benefit
of having almost all their NHS services (with
the exception of mental health) delivered
by one organisation that includes, primary
care, acute and community services. The
opportunity to build a meaningful data set
for the patients registered with the health
centres, will give insight into whether new
ways of working improve health outcomes.
Dr Imran Zaman, GP at Broadway
Healthcare Centre, said: “I am a firm
believer that healthcare should be delivered
as a whole and that’s why I’m very excited
with this opportunity as it will deliver the
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integrated care model that we have
always been talking about.
“I’m thankful to everyone who
has been involved in making this
partnership happen. Over the next
couple of months and indeed in years to
come, I hope that patients and staff will
see the difference that this opportunity
brings.”
Dr Manir Aslam, GP at Broadway
Healthcare Centre, added: “We’ve
been really fortunate to collaborate with
the Trust to deliver this truly integrated
care model.
“This partnership has tremendous
benefits for patients and means that
there will be joined-up services, where
treatment plans will be designed by
generalists from primary care, specialists
from the Trust and our patients.
“We will definitely see a more seamless
pathway for patients so they can be
seen quicker and treated more
effectively. From my point of view, this
partnership shows the true meaning of
integration and that’s the future of our
healthcare service.”
L-R: GPs, Dr Manir Aslam and Dr Imran Zaman are excited about the new partnership
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