Practice Managers with Special Interests
Fiona GroveDevelopment Manager PwSI
Team
A non clinical group
• Access• Finance• Commissioning• Developing new enhanced services• Service redesign• Business Consultancy• Employment legislation• Estates Management• Health and Safety• Infection Control• QOF assessment• Risk Assessment• Training and Development• Information Management and Technology
Developing a service
• Assessing need, planning the service• Commissioning the service
• Schemes Developed by the PCT• Schemes Developed by Practice Managers or External Agencies
• Common Issues for all schemes• Education, training and support• Evaluation and monitoring
Examples of PM’swSI
• Brent Teaching PCT Practice Management Consultancy• To create Practice Manager with Special Interests by
increasing the levels of strategic management within general practices across Brent and to improve levels of communication between the PCT and individual GP practices
• Consultancy project• Telephone support• Peer review• Training
• PCT Projects
Examples of PM’wSI cont.
• Practice Management Competency Framework• Aim:- That all Practice Managers within the PCT are able to
achieve the competencies outlined within the new GMS contract at either level 1, 2 or 3.
• The service being developed is identifying the specific learning needs of individual existing and new Practice Managers, and implementing a series of training courses that meet the identified needs.
Other Information and Help• Professional Accountability and Legal Framework
• Professional Standards• Employers Liability• Health and Safety For further information on Health and
Safety at Work please go to www.hse.gov.uk • Commissioning Services• Training and Education Directory of Support,
Training• and Development For further information please go
to http://www.cgsupport.nhs.uk/Primary_Care/Resources.asp#management_and_development_programme
Any Questions?