GP Surveyors – Practice Information GP Surveyors is a leading firm of chartered surveyors specialising in GP practices and undertakes notional rent and pharmacy rent reviews on behalf of GP Surgeries each year. At the Cheshire LMC Workshop held in October 2017, attendees received a presentation from Paul Conlan, GP Surveyors on the following topics: […]
Working at Scale South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance has started our working at scale project, taking on board views and comments of local practices of what’s important to you. The Working at Scale project will look at how general practice can collaborate as groups of practices, to manage the demands of a growing […]
Your GP Alliance needs your feedback Following our recent Annual General Meeting, we want to get as many of your views as possible, on how we take the GP Alliance forward. We are conducting a survey of all practices to understand what’s important to you and what we, as a GP Alliance of practices, need […]
Referral Peer Review Panels South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance has received confirmation that it has been successful with funding for practices to undertake referral peer review panels. This follows feedback from a number of our local GPs who felt that peer review panels, reviewing referrals to acute services, was a good opportunity to; […]
The Alliance have been working to create ‘Knowledgebase’, a glossary of services, clinics, third sector organisations and support services which can be found on our website here http://www.scvr.org.uk/knowledgebase/ The idea is for this glossary to become a reference point to enable clinicians in South Cheshire and Vale Royal to signpost patients to relevant and recommended […]
Big White Wall continues to be a huge success, with 68 patients from South Cheshire and Vale Royal registering with the service in August and a further 72 in September. That’s a total of 189 patients who have registered to use the service in the first 3 months! If you would like to see more […]
Freedom to Speak Up Guardian Role implemented across South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance have commissioned Howbeck Healthcare to provide the role of Freedom to Speak Up Guardian for its practices within the GP Alliance initially until the 31st March 2018. Howbeck Healthcare, who provide management support to […]
£25,000 funding secured for Primary Care Resilience! South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance has been successful in securing £25,000 funding from NHS England following a bid focussing on GP resilience. We must now develop at pace a proposition that will deliver practical solutions to the real problems that practices within our Alliance face, such […]
Implementation of Lexacom Cloud continues There are currently 15 practices that have joined the Lexacom cloud and we have been able to secure significant discounts on yearly memberships, mobile dictation and new or replacement equipment. We are looking to roll this out further to interested practices. Lexacom cloud is a cloud based digital dictation service […]
Launch of Big White Wall! Big White Wall (BWW) was made available to patients in South Cheshire and Vale Royal from 1 July 2017, and in the first month 43 patients registered to use the service. The service is an online mental health service designed to help patients get support, take control and feel better. […]