Clinicians in primary and secondary care in Cheshire and Merseyside have signed up to a new protocol setting out principles to guide how they will interact with each other. The guide is aimed at improving communications between staff in hospitals and GP surgeries, for the benefit of patients.

Innovation Agency Dr Phil Jennings, who continues to work as a GP, finds out why and what this is aiming to solve, from the protocol authors, Professor Rowan Pritchard-Jones, Medical Director Designate for the Integrated Care Board (ICB); and Dr Jonathan Griffiths, GP and Primary Care Advisor to the ICB.

Consensus on the primary and secondary care interface, Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership.