We facilitate the provision of clinical services within primary care and the local community.
to our Spring 2025 Shareholder Newsletter
In this newsletter we summarise the projects we have been working on most recently, our plans for the coming months and respond to your questions as shareholders of PCL. If there are any areas you would like to discuss further, please do get in touch. We can arrange a visit, telephone call or a Q&A response.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, has announced that NHS England is being "taken back into direct government control". This follows more than a decade of the NHS – via NHS England (formally, the NHS Commissioning Board) – having a degree of operational independence from the government following the 2012 Health and Social Care Act reforms.
Mr Streeting has said that he wants the dismantling of NHSE to take place over a two year period, by which time he expects the process to be completed. He has asked NHS England ‘transition’ chief executive, Sir Jim Mackey, to convene a transformation team to guide the process There will be two clinical directors within this team – one covering primary care and another covering secondary care
Patient Care Locally understands that these changes come at an extremely challenging time, with rising demand for care, constrained funding and the need to transform services. History tells us this will cause disruption while the transition is taking place
We believe that the concept, mission and vision of Patient Care Locally is at the heart of the government agenda and the perfect vehicle to deliver against the government goals for the nation’s health: illness to prevention, hospital to home and analogue to digital
PCL is funding a one year, proof of concept project for the use of Rapid Health, a digital triage and appointment booking system which delivers efficiencies for both patient and practice.
The programme, which has been rolled out to over 133,000 patients within Leicestershire, utilises the Rapid Health intelligent software to assess and triage patient needs at first contact, then navigate them to the right care. The system is configured to incorporate practice operating procedures and measures patient need and appropriate clinician availability.
The software is already running in Measham Medical Unit, Castle Medical Group, Dr Virmani and Bedi, Kingsway Surgery, Ratby Surgery, Hockley Farm Medical Practice, Silverdale Medical Practice, Enderby Medical Centre, and Charnwood Surgery. South Leicestershire Medical Group and Barwell and Hollycroft Medical Centre are in the process of deployment We are in the process of capturing data as part of the programme.
If you are interested in being part of a future pilot please contact jakecooke.llrpcl@nhs.net
Having obtained a CQC registration at the end of February, the organisation is now able to deliver Covid, RSV, Pertussis and MMR vaccinations from locations acress Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, utilising our Super Vaccination Team.
Our first clinic was held on Wednesday the 2nd of April at Oakham Enterprise Park. Since then, the Roving Healthcare Vehicles have been to various location across Rutland and have delivered 610 Covid Vaccinations.
Natalie Slayman-Broom and Jake Cooke attended the NHS Confederation Care Closer to Home Conference. The Core theme of the conference focused on the future operating model for care. As well as the vision, the conference had particular focus on the enablers for making this happen – organisational form, workforce, data and digital, estates and leadership. Andy Burnham the Mayor of Greater Manchester was the keynote speaker as he reflected on the 10 years of devolution.
Congratulations to Charlie Smart who was shortlisted for her Outstanding Contributions to Information Governance by the National Strategic Information Governance Network.
Our Annual Stakeholder Event is taking place on Tuesday the 17th of June at Holywell Court Conference Centre.
The event commences at 12:00. The theme of the event is focused around the move from Analogue to Digital Our AI Keynote Speaker with be Sina Kahen. To reserve your place at the event please e-mail info.llrpcl@nhs.net
Just a reminder to advise the PCL Business Administration Team at info.llrpcl@nhs.net of any changes of your contact details i.e changes to personnel so we can keep your records up to date
