PCC is a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides trusted, practical support to health and social care including training, development and advisory services.
- “Excellent primary care knowledge”
- “Can do attitude”
- “An easy professional service”
- “Reliable, timely and knowledgeable”
- “Provide strong experienced advice”
- “friendly support and speedy responses”
- “always on hand to help resolve an issue”
- “a critical friend”
- “fabulously knowledgeable team”
PCC Insight April edition
The April edition of PCC Insight is now available. One of the main challenges for the health service is ensuring the sustainability of primary care. Our articles consider the landscape for primary medical care working at scale, including the factors that commissioners and providers may wish to consider, such as the Provider Selection Regime. We get to the heart of the challenge for primary medical care looking at practice finance and consider some of the skills needed to commission services with tips from our personal and team development trainer.
Environment and social value
In the last year PCC has awarded five support grants to applications made by our clients. These grants will help reduce health inequalities, support local people to improve their employment prospects, support Covid recovery and support wellness of health care staff.
We are working towards becoming carbon neutral by 2023. Our carbon reduction plan has been published and we have been awarded the Green Small Business Certification for our progress towards environmental sustainability.
A strategic approach to primary care
Integrated care boards (ICBs) should have their primary care strategies in place – covering all four contractor areas. They need developing with the contractor groups and consider collaborative working and interfaces within and beyond primary care. Although the strategy needs to be inclusive of all areas, those that are involved in shaping the strategy may vary for different clinical pathways. One current focus and area to address is access to primary medical care.
Annual contracts
PCC helps organisations reduce costs and increase efficiency through our annual contract packages with many clients renewing their contracts year after year. Support includes commissioner helpdesks to access primary care expertise and access to events, e-learning and workshops at reduced rates.
Our Support
Supporting GP practice
The focus on general practice is often centred around access, but to provide good access, in our experience, there are three underlying, and linked, success factors.
- Workforce
- Finance
- Premises
For more information on how PCC can support https://www.pcc-cic.org.uk/practice-support/
Personalised training for practices and primary care networks
PCC is supporting practices and primary care networks (PCNs) by designing and delivering bespoke training and development programmes. Examples of what we have delivered in the past few months include co-designing a PCN development programme in London, running four cohorts for 80 clinical directors and managers including leadership, governance, finance and workforce. In the North West, we provided a series of facilitated sessions exploring effective population health management, a team leaders development programme and director level executive coaching. Read more, or contact enquiries@pcc-cic.org.uk for more information.
Integrated care boards value PCC
The majority of integrated care boards (ICBs) have contracts with PCC. Many have annual contract packages to access our contracting helpdesks to provide confidence and reassurance in decision making. Others access our workshops, e-learning or our bespoke, trusted support.
“PCC has access to a wider range of resources than we could locate ourselves, which adds an additional layer of expertise that we would struggle to mirror. From a project perspective, we have utilised PCC for a variety of service needs and have always been extremely happy with the outputs, which has helped us to shape services for the better.”
Events and Workshops
Improving your presentation skills
We are inspired when we attend a presentation that captivates us. Have you ever wondered what abilities the presenter has to present so successfully? This online workshop is for you if you are new to the world of presenting or simply want to brush up on your current presentation techniques.
GP premises for commissioners – the rent reimbursement process
GP premises are essential to the delivery of NHS primary medical services and commissioners have the responsibility to make the necessary reimbursements for premises costs to GP contractors. This virtual training course, delivered over two sessions, will introduce the rent reimbursement process for GP practices, including the regulatory requirements and the different types of reimbursement available to contractors depending on the premises ownership model.
Positioning yourself for the future
With uncertainty around job security for many people there are behaviours and actions that you can adopt to get yourself ready for the workplace of the future and make sure your abilities stay in demand. This workshop provides tools and techniques to create a positive professional image when considering your CV format and content, and interview presence.
Primary care estates – ask the expert
To support commissioners, with PCC annual contracts, the PCC premises team have scheduled a series of ask the expert sessions to support with the range of issues commissioners may face. Sessions are run as an open discussion with the PCC expert adviser team and with other commissioners. We will be joined by the NHS England national premises team for the next session. The team will provide an update on the national picture and be available to support with specific issues and concerns you may have.
E-learning
E-learning is a great way to enhance your personal development. Our e-learning offer gives you a full 12 months to access the whole library of courses we make available. Course topics include customer service, health and wellbeing, resilience and team development.
