We are One Care, the GP federation that represents and supports practices in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG).  Established in 2014, we have 76 member practices across the area who provide healthcare for over 1 million patients.  

We support our practices with many different aspects of running their businesses. This includes areas like finance, business intelligence and IT. We also support practices to work at scale, holding contracts on their behalf as required and offering relevant expertise.

We work closely with our practices to amplify their voices in discussions and decisions about the delivery of healthcare in our area, through our  GP Collaborative Board (GPCB).

Additionally, we support general practice to pilot projects and initiatives that support innovation and new ways of working, helping them to improve how care is delivered to patients.

Finally, we use our general practice expertise to work with partners from outside our sector or local area. Any funding we generate from this work goes back into the services we provide for our member practices.

Find out more about what we do.

We are a Community Interest Company and our Board is made up of 12 nominated and elected voting directors who are all GPs or Practice Managers from practices in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Meet our Board.

We were borne out of One Care Consortium, an organisation set up in 2014 to bid to the national GP Access Fund to help improve access to general practice and stimulate innovative ways of providing primary care services. We were awarded £9.4 million across two waves of funding to develop a number of innovative pilots and projects over three years.

When the programme ended, we set up as a new organisation (with BNSSG practices as our shareholders). Initially, we were limited company with a commitment not to pay dividends to shareholders but direct profits back into general practice in BNSSG. Because this is fundamental to our principles, we made the decision to switch to a Community Interest Company (CIC) in late 2019. Read more about our history.