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Pathfinder
Practice  Archway Development and Consulting and Archway Surgery won the the comptetitive tender in January 2008. The Pathfinder APMS contract is now being administered through Archway Surgery, Dr Omar Rahim   |
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Pathfinder is an NHS Primary Care Trust owned and run GP practice in which all the staff and doctors are salaried employees of the PCT. This arrangement is unusual. Most GP practices are run as contracts with self employed GPs who run the service, and pay the practice staff and other expenses. The practice was set up by the PCT
in 2005 because the PCT was
having difficulties in providing enhanced GMS/PMS services in the area
, and there
was difficulty in providing GP cover for Care Homes in West
Hertfordshire. Later the PCT awarded itself a temporary contract for medical provision at HMP The Mount. This was after a failed attempt by the PCT to outsource the whole of The Mount's Healthcare services to a single contractor. That concept may not have met the Governor’s approval at the time, but since then other prisons have moved to single APMS contracts, including HMP Wandsworth, now contracted to Secure HealthCare Primary
Care Trusts are still expected to give up direct service
provision, but to act as commissioners with Practice Based
Commissioning
Groups. The two
government documents Commissioning a
Patient led NHS
and Our Health, Our
Care, Our Say
set out a clear vision of PCTs as
stronger commissioning
bodies and express a clear steer for them to divest themselves fully of
direct
service provision.
The PCT’s Pathfinder practice and the PCT contracts that were associated with the Pathfinder practice were put out to tender as an APMS contract in January 2007. A year later the Archway team become the single preferred bidder. Pathfinder web site is here http://www.pathfinderpractice.co.uk/ Archway Development and Consulting Ltd is here http://www.bulger.co.uk Archway Surgery Web Site is http://www.archwaysurgery.co.uk Pathfinder, Archway, HMP The Mount: Map of area covered. Prison HealthCare page QOF Scores Watford Annual Report 2006 Watford Annual Report 2005/6 Improving Patient Access |
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