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Are you conflicted?
Some GPs and practice managers have taken on one or more different roles in organisations outside the practice, such as being on the Board of a clinical commissioning group, or federation, and now there is the primary care network (PCN).
Newsflash: PCN agreements – is yours up to scratch?
Now is the ideal time to review your agreement to ensure that it includes the provisions necessary for proper governance.
Sharing staff across a network
The concept behind primary care networks is to bring practices together and work in an integrated way across Directed Enhanced Services (DES). The payments for DES include staff, so they will be working across the practices and different employers.
The Mandatory Network Agreement
The Mandatory Network Agreement was published by NHS England and the British Medical Association.1
Primary Care Networks: Who are you trusting to receive the DES payments on your behalf?
Primary Care Networks: Who are you trusting to receive the DES payments on your behalf?
Primary Care Networks: Who are you contracting with?
Primary Care Networks: Who are you contracting with? Do you know? The Agreement is a legal contract and in order to ensure that it is legally binding on all the PCN member practices, you need to ensure that those practices are correctly and accurately identified as parties to it.
Have you got your Primary Care Network Agreement ready?
The GP primary care team at Hempsons have been considering The Mandatory Network Agreement recently published by NHS England. It contains little detail, leaving much to be elaborated in the schedules.