Business Services

• Maximising opportunities through essential, additional and enhanced services in the GMS contract
• Opportunities to develop robust service delivery through other clinical contract frameworks
• Maximising Income under the QOF scheme
• Allowing practices to develop systems to Maximise income from the changes to the QOF and enhanced services
• Maintaining income and safeguarding income for GP practices
• Service review and opportunities including Market scoping through integrated care pathways including diagnostic services
• Service orientated business planning with business audit
• Market/ business review through innovative practice
• Assistance and development of new services
• Investigating other opportunities outside NHS
• New opportunities within the Health and Social care framework
• Service redesign/ models of care/ integrated care pathways
• Financial reviews and resource allocations
• Strategic reviews
• Management of change - working partnerships and organisational Audit
• Quality review and improvements - operational management methodology using quality assurance models
• Advice to primary care organisations consortiums on service developments including practice based commissioning
• Redesign of chronic disease systems
• Addressing health inequalities
• Expert advice on legality of GMS contracts
• Developing and preparing tender documents for services offered within and outside the NHS
• Enabler to allow practice based commissioning in both macro and micro economies
• Maximising opportunities and entitlements under the Statement of Financial Entitlement
• Opportunities to develop services within primary care contracts
• Improving business process
• Improving the work / life balance
• Crisis Management and contingency planning
• Service prioritisation and resource negotiations
• Strategic business planning
• Business viability and development audit
• Independent individual GP advise
• Telephone advice on primary care issues
• Providing peace of mind for support services
• Writing business cases/business plans

Practice Management

• Enhancing practice manager's role
• Developing management techniques
• Helping develop skill mix
• Expert advice on NHS contracts in relation to primary care
• HR and payroll advice
• Contracts and job descriptions
• Specific practice management and in house staff training
• Team development to respond to change in a busy environment
• Workforce planning
• Opportunities to facilitate joint working
• Pragmatic management
• Achieving quality through teamwork
• Recruitment and retention
• Running general practice
• Advice on GMS contract including QOF, enhances services and SFE
• Tailor made training services for your practice
• Processing applications for new services
• Able to facilitate developments
• Payroll services

Premises Management

• Develop design brief
• Processing applications for premises applications
• Project management
• Advise on security
• Expert advise on premises development including improvement grants, valuations, leases, etc
• Expert knowledge on local priorities
• Independent services ensuring proberty and value for money
• Property management and disposal
• Review of direct and associated Property Costs Facilities management
• Business case development
• Building surveying and condition surveys
• DDA Audits
• Risk and compliance
• Knowledge guidance and seminars
• Facilitation
• Lifecycle cost advice

• Technical advisors / informed client