Who are Our Health Partnership?
OHP is a GP super-partnership established in 2015 with a vision of creating a healthy future for our practices and patients. We are one of the largest GP partnerships in the UK, operating under a unique autonomy model. We use our shared expertise to tackle the challenges practices face today. Our support services keep local surgeries thriving and allow them to focus on providing excellent care to our patients by providing shared back-office functions. We also support a wider footprint of practices, by providing a range of support services to Primary Care Networks.
As a collective, we can focus on providing exceptional care for our patients, while managing our practices innovatively, efficiently, ensuring we get the best value from our budgets.
At Our Health Partnership, we are proud to support:
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Patients
We aim to:
- Make life better for patients
- Make life better for practices
- Improve resilience and efficiency
- Create development opportunities
- Grow as a business into the future
- Have an organisational design that remains representative of each individual partner
Our objectives are to:
- Provide the best healthcare available
- Make life easier, simpler for patients and more viable for local practices to thrive
- Improve the quality of working life of our partners and staff
- Create an environment for a sustainable and high-quality workforce
- Maintain the identity and autonomy of our practices, within a large effective structure
- Generate efficiencies and identify business opportunities
- Lead through engagement
- Enhancing technology to enhance patient care
Our Values:
- Commitment to provide high quality care for outpatients
- Improve the quality of working life of our partners and staff
- Be a caring and supportive organisation, with a commitment to developing our teams
- Maintain autonomy for partners and support local flexibility to maintain responsiveness and innovation, allowing partners to provide care that is tailored to the need of their local population
- To be inclusive and supportive to new members who want to join in the future
- Sustain a quality NHS for now and the future
- Influencing national policy to strengthen general practice
WHAT PRACTICES GET FROM BEING A CONSTITUENT PRACTICE IN OHP
A strong, collective voice
- Influence national general practice healthcare policy and new models of care from an authoritative platform with respected peers
Effective Recruitment
- Locums provided in partnership with Lantum, including database access and centrally negotiated fee savings.
- Secure collective employment prospects to attract the best candidates for all roles
More from your budget
- Centralised procurement for consumables, indemnity cover, insurance and utilities
- Central legal facility
- Central HR services
Central Administration
- Accounts preparation and monthly bookkeeping outsourced to OHPs appointed accountant
- Central Finance team of qualified accountants to offer financial advice, support and training
- A software accounting platform requiring one regular monthly submission of data to OHPs appointed accountant who will update ledger enabling you to run monthly financial reports, staff training provided.
- Payroll outsourced to OHPs contracted payroll provider
More time
- CQC Application and notification support
- Mock CQC inspections with robust action plans. An annual CQC deep-dive data support visit
- Quarterly governance training/support webinars
- Data Protection Officer services
- A suite of policies and best practice guidance
- Support with the completion of the Data Security and Protection Toolkit.
- Identification, submission and management of centralised contracting opportunities e.g. Sexual Health Services
- Access to our research hub. Leadership from our Medicines Safety Officer function.
Staff Benefits
- VIVUP Staff benefits platform
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice scheme
- Cavell (Nurses Trust)
- Tier 2/Skilled Worker sponsorships
- Employee Assistance Programme
WHAT GPs COMMIT TO WHEN SIGNING OUR PARTNERSHIP DEED
Quality management standards
- Compliance with our quality assurance systems
- Install and use our approved intranet to securely collect data for quality assurance (incident reporting and complaints)
- Becoming a registered location under our single CQC provider registration
- Be rated at least good by CQC or have a robust action plan in place to get there
Finance processes
- Use a centrally procured accounting platform and submit monthly and year end bookkeeping information to BDO and answer month and year end queries
- Participate in finance training
- Switch to one central banking provider
- Submit monthly payroll data to OHP procured payroll provider and authorise BACs payment to staff
- Submit VAT returns on time
- Pay annual subscriptions on time (quarterly payment)
Workforce transfer and membership
- Workforce transfer paid staff to Our Health Partnership under TUPE regulations
- Transfer payroll to Our Health Partnership’s nominated provider
- Membership fees – pay an annual member ship fee