Overview

The GPCB planned care committee provides input from general practice to the Healthier Together planned care programme. The committee comprises GPs and practice managers from across BNSSG, and works closely with the GPCB clinical leads for planned care and Avon Local Medical Committee.

Its aims are:

• To give the system a single reference point when considering any change
• To ensure practice skills and experience inform any change
• To ensure assessment of resources and impact on services and patients before implementing any change
• To ensure practice priorities for change are highlighted to the wider system

The GPCB planned care programme is funded by the ICS. This enables general practice to participate in key discussions and decisions in the same way as the acute hospital trusts and Sirona care & health. This is significant, as it means general practice can influence existing projects, and raise its own at-scale issues at system level to find solutions together.