I am a full time principal with Dr Black and partners:
Tel: +44 (0) 115 960 7127
Fax: +44 (0) 115 985 7899
The practice serves over 9000 patients. It is a mixed urban/suburban teaching practice with about 5% of the population qualifying for deprivation allowance and a higher than average number of elderly patients. The practice is linked to the Department of General Practice at Nottingham University.
I was a Co-founder of the Nottingham Commissioning Group, which in turn was one of the founding organisations of the NHS PCG Alliance. Nottingham City PCT (see below) remains affiliated.
More recently I worked as Chair of the Nottingham City North & West Primary Care Group (PCG), with an annual budget of over UKP 70 million to provide care for 126,000 patients. PCGs were responsible for commissioning secondary care services, improving primary care provision, reducing health inequalities, and for improving the overall health of their population through joint working with other agencies, e.g. social services. Enough to be going on with!
In April 2001, North & West PCG combined with the two other City PCGs and the Community Trust to form Nottingham City Primary Care Trust (PCT). This new organisation is responsible for providing and commissioning health care services for over 300,000 people and has a budget of over UKP 200 million per annum. As well as chairing the Executive Committee of the PCT, I am the Chair of the Health and Social Care Governance Board for Nottingham City. A web presence for our PCT is under construction: watch this space!
I have worked as a GP Adviser to the Primary Care Division of the Department of Health for over five years now, involved in areas such as GP Commissioning Pilots, emergency admissions (including Millennium planning), Primary Care Groups and Information Management, and the recent review of GP Out-of-Hours services. For those with an interest in such matters you could try the DoH Home Page. Or if you'd like to peek inside Quarry House click here!
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