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To inform the challenges facing primary care Nuffield Trust/King’s Fund, 18 July 2013   To inform the challenges facing primary care, the former Midlands and East SHA (now NHS England Midlands and East) commissioned the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund to undertake a review of UK and international models...

Why a federation? Suffolk GP Federation is a not-for-profit Federation of 40 independent GP practices covering 360,000 patients. Udate on services Developing the Federation New staff at Federation Any ideas? Do we have your email? Newsletter – July 2013

The RCGP 2022 GPs – A Vision for General Practice contains a section on GP federations which we have reproduced below. Working in federated organisations (organised networks of teams) The general practice teams of the future will be working with groups of other practices and providers – as federated or...

GPs across Ipswich and east Suffolk have joined forces and decided fight together under one standard to preserve the commitment, passion and quality of Suffolk’s primary care. Why do we need to do this? You might think that since GPs are the driving force behind CCGs that general practice has...

The environment in which primary care operates has changed dramatically since the last general election. Practice contracts are now managed by NHS England and GP involvement with commissioning has passed from commissioning groups to CCGs. Powerful private sector competitors have entered the market, the BMA appears to be less influential...

GPs from 38 practices across Ipswich and Suffolk have grouped together to form what could be the UK’s largest GP federation, in response to the Government’s NHS reforms. Since the beginning of April the practices, which cover a total of 360,000 patients, have joined forces to form the Suffolk GP...