1. North West nGMS/nPMS Information Session

2. Programme 12.00 Registration and Lunch 12.30 Introduction 12.45 PMS Futures overview 13.30 nGMS overview 14.45 Coffee 15.00Q & A Session 15.30 SHA/nGMS Leads – progress to date 16.15Close

3. Support for nGMS Learning Exchange Event – 14 th /15 th January On line presentations North West support following Learning Exchange Events Helpline Practice Toolkit Post April support

4. PMS Futures Changes and Implications

5. PMS Wave 5B Confirmation of live status by 22/10/03 Support – letters from JH and reiteration by NPDT PMS Team Deferred Pilots Growth Pilot Status

6. PMS Futures Future of PMS Why Should PMS Continue Flexibility / Locally Negotiated Permanence Right of Return 5b last wave of piloting Seniority & 03/04 Uplift Convergence of 2 contracts?

7. Comparable Benefits to GMS Quality Framework – Comparable / Equivalent IT OOH Pensions / Superannuation Enhanced Services Premises

8. Q & O Framework PCT and practice to negotiate Local alternative can be agreed May choose to take on all framework May choose to take parts or none Additional investment in quality comparable/equivalent to GMS Recycled monies

9. Q & O Framework Global Sum Equivalent/MPIG (some, but not all IoS)

10. Q & O Framework Global Sum Equivalent/MPIG (Some, but not all IoS) Global Sum Equivalent/MPIG 500 points

11. Q & O Framework Global Sum 500 points Recycled 500 points PMS Baseline

12. PMS Growth No unpicking of baselines Growth remains part of contract value whilst in PMS Flexible use after 1 st April 2004 No centrally held growth (or anything!!) after 1 st April

13. Right of Return Delay in return notice – 3 months – Less? After 1 st April – return to what? Single performer list from 1 st April Right of return will mean a move either way

14. Return – Financial Implications MPIG/GSE in GMS Needs to be fair financial return for PMS – how? PMS GSE/MPIG ? –Locally negotiated –Nationally calculated –Growth?

15. PMS Futures – New Developments Sustaining Innovation in PMS Specialist PMS Commissioning by nPMS LPS / PDS Next Steps

16. Use of PMS to aid primary care modernisation Maintenance of local alternative Discussions re Q & O Framework – local or national? Good Practice Further Guidance – Dec and Jan