1. Primary Care Transformation GP Access Fund & GP Forward View Elsa Brown Primary Care Development Manager NHS England South Central

2. Summary Overview of GP Access Fund (PMCF)
GP Access Fund in South Central
Future Direction for GP Access
GP Forward View

3. Overview of GP Access Fund (PMCF)
In October 2013, the Prime Minister Challenge Fund (PMCF) was announced, providing £50million to improve access to general practice.
20 pilot schemes were selected for 2014/15. Slough was awarded £2.95 million for their scheme providing improved access for 148,000 patients
On 30 September 2014, £100million funding for a second wave of access schemes was announced. This was expanded to £125 million.
In March 2015, an additional 37 Wave Two schemes were announced covering 10.5million patients. Within South Central four sites received funding of over £15million to provide services for 1.7million people.

4. Objectives of GP Access Fund (PMCF)
The pilots were to explore a number of ways to improve access including:
longer opening hours, such as 8am-8pm weekdays and opening on Saturdays and Sundays;
joining-up of urgent care and out-of-hours care;
greater flexibility about how people access general practice;
greater use of technology to provide alternatives to face-to-face consultations eg via phone, , webcam and instant messaging;
greater use of patient online services; and
greater use of telecare and healthy living apps to help people manage their health without having to visit their GP surgery as often.

5. GP Access Fund in South Central
Oxfordshire
Right Time, Right Place, Right Care
3 federations – 716,000 patients
6 Locality Hubs
E-consultations
Community Navigators
ECP Home Visiting
Online portal – COACH
Wave Two
Windsor Ascot & Maidenhead
Our Time for Change
153,000 Patients
2 Hubs – OOH Provider
Capacity & Demand
Hub-based MH Services
Care Homes Service
Wave One
Slough
Steps to The Future
153,000 patients
4 Cluster Hubs
Complex Case Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Swindon
SUCCESS
230,000 patients
2 SUCCESS Centres
Home Visiting Service
Children and Young Person’s Clinic
Interoperability
Gloucestershire
Joining Up Your Primary Care
636,000 patients
13 Choice+ Centres
Social Prescribing
Practice Nurse Service
Video consultations

6. Outcomes from Wave 1 Evaluation
The 20 Wave 1 sites have been ambitious, and their innovations have extended far beyond increasing the number of hours that general practice is available for.
The Fund has been successful in initiating a culture change amongst the primary care community. The injection of investment into primary care has had a catalytic effect, encouraging practices to move away from operating as independent small businesses and, instead, work collectively. This was very much driven by the requirement set in the selection process of a minimum population size.
Typical demand across the schemes indicates extended hours appointments in the week are highly utilised, as are Saturdays (mornings over afternoons). Typically there is very low utilisation of Sunday appointments.
Up to May 2015, there has been a statistically significant reduction in minor self-presenting A&E attendances by patients registered to Challenge Fund GP practices. This represents a 15% reduction (compared to 7% nationally).
Patient and staff satisfaction is generally high with new approaches.
Multiple approaches to improving access have been tested and to date telephone consultations have proved popular, successful and cost effective. Experience with e-consultations is more limited but also positive. There has been very limited patient take-up of video consultations.
Integration of other practitioners into primary care provision has been successful in almost all cases Joint working with ANPs, pharmacists, the voluntary sector, care homes, physiotherapists and paramedics has released local GP capacity and more appropriately matched the needs of patients with practitioners.

7. Future Direction for Extended Access
Next Steps for GP AF:
Mainstreaming
Enhanced Interoperability
Integration with OOH/NHS 111
Spread Models across STPs
Sharing Learning across region
Included in Planning Guidance
16/17 - Funding for all Wave 1 & 2 schemes
17/18 – expansion to Transformation areas
18/19 - £3.34 per head (weighted) for all other areas to begin delivery
19/20 - £6 per head (weighted) for all areas

8. Extended Access Criteria
Timing of appointments:
commission weekday provision of access to pre-bookable and same day appointments to general practice services in evenings (after 6:30pm) – to provide an additional 1.5 hours a day;
commission weekend provision of access to pre-bookable and same day appointments on both Saturdays and Sundays to meet local population needs;
provide robust evidence, based on utilisation rates, for the proposed disposition of services throughout the week; and
appointments can be provided on a hub basis with practices working at scale.
Capacity:
commission a minimum additional 30 minutes consultation capacity per 1000 population, rising to 45 minutes per 1000 population.
Measurement:
ensure usage of a nationally commissioned new tool to automatically measure appointment activity by all participating practices, both in-hours and in extended hours

9. Extended Access Criteria (cont)
Advertising and ease of access:
ensure services are advertised to patients, including notification on practice websites, notices in local urgent care services and publicity that into the community, so that it is clear to patients how they can access these appointments and associated service;
ensure ease of access for patients including:
all practice receptionists able to direct patients to the service and offer appointments to extended hours service on the same basis as appointments to non-extended hours services
patients should be offered a choice of evening or weekend appointments on an equal footing to core hours appointments.
Digital:
use of digital approaches to support new models of care in general practice.
Inequalities:
issues of inequalities in patients’ experience of accessing general practice identified by local evidence and actions to resolve in place.

10. Workload Workforce Investment Infrastructure Care Redesign
GP Forward View to 2020/2021
Workload
Workforce
Investment
Infrastructure
Care Redesign

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