Federation publishes Annual Report 2018/19

The ELR GP Federation has published its third Annual Report - “Our Third Year - supporting transformation”

  • Sets out the Federation vision for supporting Primary Care Networks
  • Full details of scores of transformation projects supported or delivered by the Federation over the past year
  • Includes details of successful partnership with DHU to deliver Urgent Care Centres

The ELR GP Federation has published its third Annual Report – “Our Third Year – supporting transformation”

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The Report:

  • Sets out the Federation vision for supporting Primary Care Networks
  • Contains full details of scores of transformation projects supported or delivered by the Federation over the past year
  • Includes details of successful partnership with DHU to deliver Urgent Care Centres

In his introduction to the Annual Report, the Federation Chair Dr Ryszard Bietzk says:

“In the introduction to last year’s Annual Report, I said that we were delighted to be able to report on a busier year of development and achievement than the previous year. This year has been no different as we have continued to innovate and deliver increasing levels of service and value – in patient-facing care, back office resilience, contracting models and support for system-wide transformation 

Our work is all centred on supporting our member practices and the local health and care economy and to deliver excellent and resilient services for our patients, their families and carers and the communities they serve. 

We never forget that we were created after extensive engagement with local GP practices and wider stakeholders with the explicit aim of supporting them to deliver sustainable primary care in East Leicestershire and Rutland (ELR) in the future. 

That was our primary purpose at the time of our creation and it remains our key purpose today. 

The Federation represents a diverse range of practices and to achieve maximum effect the Board constantly reviews the way it works to ensure local needs and opportunities for innovation are supported, balancing this with opportunities to work at a larger scale. 

We also very much value our continuing support from – and partnership with – our local commissioners at East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG. 

It is important that we are flexible and responsive as our members continue to develop and explore different models of working and organisation. This Annual Report demonstrates how we have continued to do that as our members have formed Primary Care Networks. 

The pressure on general practice services is set to continue to increase as we live longer with more complex needs. ELR GP Federation continues to support our practices to meet local challenges across primary care and the wider healthcare system and to meet patients’ needs at scale. 

I am proud that this year’s Annual Report is full of examples of how we have risen to that challenge, for example through securing resources and developing services for our members such as the Active Signposting Support Programme, Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice scheme, implementation of the GPTeamNet system and providing Diabetes Specialist Nurses. 

We also delivered innovative services ourselves, such as the GDPR Data Protection Officer Service and harnessing web, digital and social channels to improve communications and engagement with patients and the wider community via the Rutland Hub at www.rutlandhealth.co.uk. 

And we took a significant step forward through our successful bid in partnership with Derbyshire Health United (DHU) to provide six out-of-hours urgent care centres in East Leicestershire and Rutland from April 2019. Following the approval of our shareholders, we are working to form a Community Interest Company – ‘DHU East Leicestershire and Rutland CIC’. This will formalise our Joint Venture with DHU and create a vehicle that will be able to bid for further schemes in the future 

Being the Chair of the Federation over the entirety of its first three years has been both a pleasure and a privilege, made all the easier by excellent support from my fellow directors, to whom I am, once again, most grateful. 

Once again as always, the whole Board is indebted to our Chief Operating Officer, James Watkins for his ceaseless work and the continuing dedication he has shown since his appointment, considerably raising the profile of the Federation both locally and further afield. The Federation could not be in safer or more excellent hands. 

Dr Ryszard Bietzk 

Chair