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.

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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/

GPI

GP Group is one of the UK’s leading investors in the primary care sector, supporting a portfolio of more than 150 primary care centres. GPI, the premises development arm of the Group, has a programme now adding around 30 new centres to the portfolio each year.

Offering genuine long term partnership, the Group and its professional team is committed to provision of high quality, modern, sustainable and cost effective primary care premises. Featuring leading edge design we create flexible healthcare environments that are sensitive to current and future needs of local health communities. Through GPI’s network of regional offices, the Group has successfully managed the development of over 80 new premises.

The advent of Practice Based Commissioning (PBC) and the creation of new service provider organisations will see a significant shift of services into communities alongside existing GP Practices. GP Group is committed to facilitating this shift through provision of flexible premises and leasing arrangements as well as providing financial, strategic planning and professional support that will enable service providers to adapt, survive and flourish.

www.gpgroup.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

Together we have produced a pre-agreement for those interested in taking up practice based commissioning. Periodically, we come together to thrash out issues of concern and we shall shortly be holding a joint meeting to discuss issues around PCT redundancies. For further information about the NHS Confederation please visit their website.

http://www.nhsconfed.org/

Pfizer

PracticeProfit

PracticeProfit is the UK’s only firm of purchasing and cost reduction experts who work exclusively with medical practices. They have many years of experience in driving cost savings and purchasing improvement across various industry sectors. The partners, John Baldaro and Tim Lawson, are passionate about helping professional practices develop as businesses. With over 50 years in business and management between them, they have the skills and acumen to deliver outstanding results for their clients.

Never has the time been more right for GP practices to address their cost issues. In the current environment it is proving almost impossible to add top line revenue, therefore, profit growth can only be achieved by a reduction in overheads and lower buying costs.

PracticeProfit help GP’s understand the commercial challenges they face and offer simple, practical steps to address those problems. They identify where a practice is incurring its greatest costs and highlight opportunities to save money. The focus is on driving down cost, not just getting ‘best prices’ because price comparisons are only a small part of the big prize locked up in purchasing.
For NAPC members, a free and exclusive £250 voucher is offered against cost reduction services, which when coupled with a price promise (if no savings are made, you get a full refund) means that this is a very compelling service for GP’s.

Find out more at:   www.practiceprofit.co.uk

Contact details: T: 01733 302648
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Tribal - NAPC Associate

Tribal is committed to the vision of healthcare services that are personalised, high quality, good value for money, and meet the needs of individual patients.

We have more than 20 years' experience providing advice and support services to all parts of the healthcare sector, including primary care and GPs. Recently, we have been working in partnership with GPs to raise the skills and competencies of Practice Based Commissioners to deal with the financial and service challenges faced by the NHS today.

Our insight into the everyday issues faced by health clients enables us to deliver real results for the benefit of healthcare professionals and their patients.

We engage with managers, clinicians and patients to redesign services and systems, operating processes, implement technology, plan facilities and skill and motivate the workforce.

www.tribalgroup.com/healthcommissioning

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

Servier Laboratories Ltd

Servier works collaboratively at grass roots level supporting PCTs and practices in service redesign. In addition they work with both practices and PCT’s providing training, development and bespoke items for use within the NHS environment. For further information visit the website.

www.servier.co.uk

The Health Consultancy UK Ltd – NAPC Associate

Williams Medical Supplies Ltd

Williams Medical Supplies Limited (WMS) is the UK’s leading supplier to the Primary Care market of pharmaceuticals, medical consumables, medical equipment and family planning products. WMS is also the largest supplier in the UK of Testing & Calibration services for medical equipment.

WMS success with GP’s is achieved by providing customers with a comprehensive product range at the right price backed up by first class customer service.

We carry over £3 million of stock in our purpose built warehouse, including refrigerated and controlled temperature storage facilities, which allow us to offer a same day despatch promise for all orders received before 6pm.

Williams Medical Supplies – helping you with “Great Prices, Great Service, Every Day”.

www.wms.co.uk

X-Genics Limited

eManager by X-Genics Ltd

eManager is a simple to use interactive expert system that will allow any member of your staff to faithfully follow any procedure from Complaints and Staff Appraisal, to Accident Reporting, without any prior knowledge of the rules, policies or legislation.

It takes two minutes to learn, after which, you never have to train them again for any other procedure, because all the procedures work in exactly the same, easy, step by step manner.
Features: Built in letters and templates; Full audit trail of evidence; Reports at the touch of a button
Benefits:
• Easy to use “Learn as you use” step by step methodology
• Assured compliance as all procedures update automatically in line with the latest legislation
• Fully networked giving every member of staff access
• Prevents mistakes and oversight
• Doubles as a simulation and training tool
• The most cost effective system of its type
Exclusive NAPC membership benefit
NAPC membership guarantees all GPs and PCTs an exclusive discount. Always quote your membership when ordering.

Unit 3
Kingsmill Business Park
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey KT1 3GZ

Tel 020 8546 8110 Fax 020 7979 0087

http://www.xgenics.com/