Ben is joined this week by Katherine Saunders, Chief Executive, and Pramit Patel, Medical Director, from Alliance for Better Care; a GP federation covering 49 practices, within 10 primary care networks, across East Surrey and West Sussex. Together, they explain how the federation is meeting the challenges presented by the Covid-19 crisis in their local area by setting up multi-disciplinary clinical decision units within the community, redesigning the home visiting process, identifying clear roles and responsibilities within their existing staffing models - and working to put general practice at the heart of their response.

Introductions (22 secs)

The role of Alliance for Better Care (ABC) and the Covid-19 response (1 min 18 secs)

The relationship with primary care (2 mins 6 secs)

Setting up a Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) within a community setting (2 mins 45 secs)

Managing patient exposure within the CDU (4 mins 23 secs)

Multi-disciplinary team working during a pandemic (5 mins 18 secs)

Integrating primary care into the wider system (6 mins 29 secs)

Sharing learning, materials and experiences (8 mins 12 secs)

How are local practices coping? (9 mins 3 secs)

Home Visiting (10 mins 26 secs)

Access to data and its importance (12 mins 4 secs)

How to manage demand and agree priorities with local partners (12 mins 59 secs)

Procurement of new systems and software (14 mins 39 secs)

The capacity to cope: roles, responsibilities and managing staffing levels (15 mins 44 secs)

Communication and engagement (17 ins 45 secs)

Getting in touch (19 mins 2 secs)

 

Katherine is contactable via email: [email protected]

The Alliance for Better Care website