NAPC Partners

To meet its objectives and provide the best possible service to its members the NAPC works closely with a wide range of both public and private organisations.

If your company is interested in exploring mutually beneficial opportunities and becoming a partner with NAPC, please contact Maggie Marum on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or tel: 020 7636 7228.

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is dedicated to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of medicines for important areas of healthcare, including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation. In the UK alone, AstraZeneca spends around £750 million each year on researching and developing new medicines, and is committed to working with the NHS across the UK to make a difference to the health of the nation.

http://www.astrazeneca.co.uk/

Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim has always remained true to its character as an independent family-owned company.

Our vision drives us forward. It helps to foster value through innovation in our company and to look to the future with constantly renewed commitment and ambition. Today we operate with 145 affiliated companies and more than 42,000 employees worldwide.
With a track record developed over 125 years, we are dedicated to improving the outlook for healthier lives.
www.boehringer-ingelheim.co.uk

Harmoni

Harmoni has come a long way since we started out in 1996 as a GP co-operative in west London. Our core business is still the delivery of out of hours care and today we are the largest provider of urgent care services in England. Initially Harmoni had 104 GP members and we now have over 300 GP shareholders. We deliver excellent, high-value patient care on behalf of the NHS for over eight million patients across the country.
Our ethos is to "treat patients as family" and to "treat staff as we would want to be treated ourselves". This ethos is reflected in the values of the organisation, and our commitment to patients. We have developed a service model that delivers high quality integrated care pathways through a variety of services including:

• Out of hours services
• Referral management centres
• Single point of access services
• 111 urgent care telephone services
• Offender healthcare services
• GP led health centres
• Urgent care centres
• IT services

You can find out more about Harmoni and how we work with GP partners and commissioners on our website www.harmoni.co.uk Alternatively, please contact a member of the marketing team at 01635 211900.

Hempsons

Hempsons is a leading national firm in the health, social enterprise and voluntary sectors. Our clients include public, private and voluntary sector organisations that plan, commission or provide health and social care services or operate within the supply chain.

We have consistently been recognised as the legal experts for GPs and Healthcare in the legal Directories - and in 2010 we were voted Legal Advisers of the Year at the Health Investor Awards by an independent judging panel which included Lord Ara Darzi, Bob Ricketts (DH Director of System Management and New Enterprise) and Prof Nick Bosanquet (Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College London).

We act for 1000s of GPs and over 180 NHS bodies, as well as local authorities, social enterprises and the private sector involved in health and social care. With over 100 lawyers based in our four offices in London Manchester Newcastle and Harrogate we are able to provide a nationwide service working across the full range of disciplines

www.hempsons.co.uk/gps

KPMG Healthcare

The NHS is facing a challenging future. After a decade of investment, the global economic downturn has created financial pressures that will be felt for years. The NHS will need to deliver cost savings of between £15bn and £20bn between 2011 and 2014, whilst still delivering sustained improvements in quality and in health outcomes.

KPMG is committed to supporting the NHS as it rises to the challenge of reducing costs while maintaining and improving services. In recent years we have worked closely with the DH, the SHAs, hospital and mental health trusts, commissioners and community service providers, to help them achieve their objectives and meet the needs of patients and citizens. We know how to help our clients reduce costs while maintaining and improving services.

Most recently we have formed a partnership with a number of complementary organisations, such as NAPC, to provide commissioning support to GP pathfinders and consortia. We have expertise in helping consortia move towards a successful authorisation of shadow budgets in 2012 and full accountable body in 2013.

www.kpmg.com

McKesson

McKesson is the trusted healthcare IT provider dedicated to helping the NHS deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient care. McKesson was awarded 'IT Supplier of the Year' by The British Computer Society & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2010- Judges stated that

"McKesson demonstrated that it has made a major commitment to the NHS and its products and services have made a real difference to healthcare in the UK."

We have been working with a large number of PCTs, supporting them make informed commissioning decisions by providing them with audits of their secondary care activity using our clinical decision support tool - InterQual®, which is based on best and world medical evidence. We are currently working with Commissioners in The North West, East Midlands, South Central and the East of England to develop InterQual®, and other tools to support NHS commissioning.

In addition to our successful Patient Administration Systems, Child Health, Management and evidence-based clinical decision support systems, we have implemented the only successful national IT solution for healthcare to be deployed on time and on budget across England and Wales, the NHS Electronic Staff record. This McKesson solution pays more than 1.4 million NHS employees.

Our high levels of customer satisfaction has led to customer retention, with 21 NHS Trusts choosing to remain with McKesson for our trusted, reliable and proven CarePlus Child Health system as their strategic child health informatics solution.

McKesson has become quietly successful and we like it that way, as it's our customers we want to put in the limelight - if they make a difference, then so do we! Yes, McKesson UK has significant parentage in the US but this provides us simply with an infrastructure and stability in which to flourish. McKesson UK staff are a grounded team and our customers often attribute how our willingness to go the extra mile for them is the secret to our success!

www.mckesson.co.uk

MSD

Today's MSD is a global healthcare leader who is working to help the world be well.

Through our medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and consumer and animal products, we collaborate with human and animal health professionals across the UK and in more than 140 countries to deliver innovative health solutions.

Beyond this, we have a commitment to increasing access to healthcare through far-reaching programmes that donate and deliver our products to people who need them.

For more information, please go to www.msd-uk.co.uk.

NHS Confederation

We come together periodically to discuss issues of common interest and have produced a number of joint reports. In July 2010 we produced joint advice to GP practices on the early action they can take with PCTs to develop GP commissioning consortia. For further information about the NHS Confederation please visit their website www.nhsconfed.org

Pfizer

Royal Society of Medicine

The Royal Society of Medicine is an independent, apolitical organisation, founded over 200 years ago. They are one of the largest providers of continuing medical education in the UK.

Their aims are:
• to promote an exchange of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation of medicine, both within the health professions and with responsible and informed public opinion.

• to provide a broad range of educational activities and opportunities for doctors, dentists and veterinary surgeons, including students of these disciplines, and for allied healthcare professionals.

The NAPC have arranged a special membership offer with the RSM, NAPC members and their staff may take advantage of:

• No joining fee - saving up to £115
• £30 discount on the annual membership fee, when paying by Direct Debit
• £10 RSM voucher

Who can join?

Any GPs in the practice, Practice Nurses, your Practice Manager and any other healthcare professionals working for you. We have different categories of membership suited to different members of staff.

Fellowship
Open to those with a medical degree.

Associate Membership
Open to all other healthcare professionals, such your Practice Manager, nurses, dieticians and physiotherapists.

Contact the RSM's Membership team for an application form, mentioning that you are an NAPC member: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 020 7290 2991.

For more information visit: www.rsmmembership.org

Scott McKenzie Consultancy Limited

Scott McKenzie Consultancy is an independent, national company, widely recognised as a specialist provider of support with all aspects of delivering change within the NHS.

Our work is mainly focused upon Commissioning, and we are already working with the consortia we support to deliver the White Paper transition in to GP Commissioning.
The transition needs to deliver strong commissioning entities, underpinned by driving up quality and reducing costs.
Services Include:

• Legal entity formation
• Training, education and consortium development
• Up-skilling personnel for new roles
• Coaching and mentoring
• Change management
• Strategy development
• Implementation
• Pathway and service redesign
• Data analysis and management

We focus on developing a partnership between Healthcare Professionals. We also provide considerable support to PCTs and envisage a collaborative approach; where appropriate bringing existing PCT staff to consortia.
We avoid just ticking boxes and start to deliver meaningful outcomes using all the levers and incentives available. Our services cover the development of legal entities for both Commissioning and Providing services.
Each aspect of the work is built around the five key drivers;

• improving health and reducing health inequalities
• improving the quality of service offered to patients
• improving equity of the services available
• improving the health, wellbeing and overall outcomes achieved by patients
• embracing the principles of cost effectiveness and improving value for money

Our emphasis is outcomes and moving forward. We have a practical approach in which consortium can quickly progress to delivering business cases for new pathways; all based on data analysis tied to the available skill set.   With the NHS now requiring unprecedented levels of efficiency in the next three financial years SMC has developed systems and process to ensure consortia can achieve what is required.
At Scott McKenzie Consultancy Ltd we have a straightforward process for driving change in the current climate, built upon our experience in, building and developing over 50 Commissioning Groups whilst working with many PCTs.  Our work is currently recommended by the National Association of Primary Care where Scott is an elected member of the NAPC Council.

For further details on how Scott McKenzie Consultancy can support your work please login to www.scottmckenzieconsultancy.com

UnitedHealth UK

• UnitedHealth UK works in partnership with the NHS to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare and to improve the lives and well-being of patients.

• We are a part of UnitedHealth Group - a global health and wellbeing company that commissions care and provides health management services to over 70 million individuals with a turnover of $70bn a year and employing 70,000 staff .

• We have been working with all levels of the NHS since 2002 - clinicians, PCTs, SHAs, PBC groups, GP consortia and the Department of Health, combining our global expertise with an in depth knowledge of the NHS to support the delivery of high quality and cost effective health care and improve the lives and well-being of patients.

• We combine leading edge information technology, analytics, consulting and health management solutions to drive improvements in health outcomes using the most clinically and cost effective evidence base.

• To date we have worked with 60 PCTs and SHAs in supporting their commissioning needs in the following areas:

• Data management and analytics;

• Risk stratification, profiling, and financial risk-pooling;

• Contract negotiation and management;

• Care pathway oversight and redesign;

• Disease prevention and utilisation management capabilities; and

• Case and condition management

• We have worked with more than 130 primary care organisations in the UK supporting medicines management and prescribing decision support. Our ScriptSwitch software is used in 6,500 GP practices and last year delivered over £25m savings for the NHS.

• UnitedHealth UK currently employs around 200 staff in the UK

www.unitedhealthuk.co.uk

X-Genics is a leading supplier of compliance support services and software to NHS providers, ranging from GP Practices to Primary Care Trusts, Out of Hours Services, Opticians and Dentists.

With a strong audit background to our business, we approach every solution as we would expect an auditor to see it, acting as ‘gamekeeper turned poacher', with the objective of preparing our clients for the most rigorous audit and evidential requirements.

We pride ourselves in bringing to the NHS what we believe the most cost-effective solution of its type, designed specifically to achieve maximum efficiency at the lowest cost possible. We do this by dedicating significant time to our research and development and converting the most complex of problems into clear and simple-to-use solutions.

Our fast-growing consultancy division provides services including:
• Practice/business health-checks for compliance;
• Implementing governance systems;
• CQC readiness;
• Staff training and support;
• Management support and change management; and
• Compliance outsourcing

eManager, a best-of-breed solution
Our eManager system is a sophisticated single and multi-site solution with real-time central reporting capability. This expert process delivers interactive compliance and problem solving for a comprehensive range of situations, from health & safety and human resources to regulatory compliance and corporate governance.

The user requires no prior knowledge of underlying rules, policies or legislation and yet can faithfully follow any procedure, from complaints and staff appraisal, to accident reporting - consistently and accurately, time after time.

Our philosophy is to make everything simple to use, where each mouse click achieves multiple tasks of learning, decision making, action, and automatic audit trails. Our clients experience:
• Simplicity of use;
• Actually getting work done;
• Automatically recorded audit trails;
• "Learn as you use", step-by-step methodology;
• Doubles as a simulation and training tool; and
• Assured compliance.

CQC Compliance
We provide a complete CQC solution, which takes policies and delivers them directly to the end user as fully working electronic procedures, cutting out the cascade of paper and training in the middle. All procedures automatically update in line with any regulatory changes, and this combination achieves dramatic time and cost savings from day one.

Our one-stop solution caters for single practices, enterprises or entire consortia, with real-time monitoring of compliance performance of every member, at a fraction of the costs experienced by PCTs.

For further information, visit us on www.xgenics.com