![]() They reflect on how it has benefited them being an independent Primary Care Network and why others may or may not look into doing the same. ![]() Throughout the interview Ben gets an understanding of how The Practice and Network works in terms of their resources, clinical delivery, and management team. Ockham Healthcare - Swan Podcast Now Liveĭr George Gavriel, the executive partner at The Swan Practice and Clinical Director of the Swan Network, & Emma Vye, the Operations Manager at both The Swan Practice and Swan Network were guests on the Ockham Healthcare podcast this week. Thank you for your support and understanding whilst we implement and monitor these changes. We are hopeful that this approach will help you navigate our services, improve continuity of care, reduce telephone waiting times, and ensure your query is dealt with within an appropriate time frame. We recognise that not all queries need to be dealt with on the same day and that you may like to manage your appointments in advance therefore, we will be opening availability further into the future. This may include self-care, telephone advice, or a face-to-face appointment. A newly created GP-led triage team will then contact you with an outcome via text message or telephone. From Monday 5 th December, when you contact the practice, you will still be asked to provide a brief description of the issue you need addressing. As a result of our findings, we have introduced some minor changes in an attempt to improve your experience of our services. The BMA wrote to immigration minister Robert Jenrick earlier this year calling for a six-month ‘grace period’ for IMG GP trainees, which would ‘help alleviate some of the stress and anxiety’ experienced at the end of their specialty training. Although the proposed visa extension is two months short of the BMA’s proposal, it is arguably a step in the right direction.įinally, in terms of retaining experienced GPs, the Government announced that it will encourage them to stay in practice through the pension reforms announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in the Spring Budget, which included the removal of the pensions Lifetime Allowance and increasing the Annual Allowance from £40,000 to £60,000.Dear Patients, The Swan Practice Team have spent the last two months analysing and reviewing appointment data and systems in response to the feedback we have received from many of you. In the plan, NHS England said that ‘over half of doctors’ in GP training are IMGs, but due to the three-year length of GP training these doctors ‘are typically not eligible for indefinite leave to remain’, which requires at least five years working in the UK under the skilled worker visa. Meanwhile, international medical graduates (IMGs) will be granted a four-month visa extension after completing GP specialty training from autumn 2023. The plan acknowledges this and outlines that ‘ambitious’ proposals will be set out in the still-to-be-published NHS workforce plan, which will likely include alternative routes into medicine as PA Media reported that up to one-in-10 doctors could receive on-the-job training in the coming years. While it has done well to increase GP specialty training numbers from 2,671 in 2014 to over 4,000 today, training fully qualified GPs takes time. Hiring non-GP staff seems to be the Government’s silver bullet solution, but the Government also announced that it will further expand GP specialty training. ![]() In response to the lack of a plan for boosting GP numbers, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting called the plan ‘a shallow offer’ and poignantly pointed out that ‘better hold music isn’t going to change that’. ![]() In reality, the number of fully-qualified GPs has gone down. ![]() Overall more patients are being seen, but it’s not really true that the capacity from the ARRS staff is the same as that of practice staff.’įurthermore, the plan’s claimed number of additional GPs – an extra 2,200 – includes both GPs and doctors in GP training. ‘While people like social prescribers see a lot of appointments, it’s basically new demand. However, they can’t provide the same capacity as traditional GP staff. ‘Of the 34,700 additional staff that are delivering patient care, 32,200 are ARRS or administrative staff,’ he says. ![]()
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