Understanding GP Partnerships
Most Practices are formed as partnerships, with most partners being a GP, but other clinicians or business leaders can be partners too. Partners take the responsibility for the financial risks and rewards for running the service.
General Practice is contracted to provide NHS and Public Health services. Within these contract terms (set by NHS England, the Integrated Care Board and Public Health), General Practice does its best to use resources efficiently and effectively in delivering these services within our local communities – responding to 90% of all NHS contacts.
At Cowes Medical Centre we deliver an average 2,260 appointments/patient contacts a week that’s 14.5% of our total patient population every week. But, the appointments are only one-third of the work we do – two-thirds of the work goes unseen on:
- Results
- Prescriptions
- Referrals
- Housebound/care home patients
- Patient queries
- Safeguarding
- Advocating for our patients
- Reviewing secondary/community care letters
- Insurance reports
- Audits
- Data controller of the patient record
Our Commitment to You:
Please work with us to do the best we can with the available resources we have to support all our patients who need us.