A group of 35 GP practices has agreed to merge into a super-practice with 200 GP partners and 275,000 patients, becoming the largest practice in the UK.
The Our Health Partnership merger across Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield will be run by an executive team and a seven-member partnership board, and its leaders have promised local practices that they will be able to retain their local links with patients and their own ‘ethos and identity’.
The new Our Health Partnership model said practices will benefit from efficiency savings, a buying group, discounts on accountancy and professional insurance, a salaried GP pool as well as ‘increased influence in the local health economy’.
Source: www.pulsetoday.co.uk