PCC Insight June edition

At the heart of the changes we are seeing across the health service is the intention to transform how we work together.  The need for commissioners to empower and encourage providers to collaborate to find solutions and to work together underpinned with a focus on population health management and outcomes is discussed in this edition of PCC Insight. We summarise the ICB changes proposed, cover the hot topic for many practices around accessing funding from the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund, by offering top tips to develop the essential project initiation documents (PIDs).  We consider sustainability in primary care – reducing variation is key, but underlying variation is usually premises, funding or workforce issues, PCC supports practices to address all these areas, and our case study shares an example of how we can help. You can also test your knowledge on primary care contracting matters with questions from our helpdesk.