Our Health Partnership is a large provider of primary care services in Birmingham and Shropshire established in November 2015. Our Health Partnership is one of the UK’s biggest general practitioner partnerships. It brings together 47 surgeries in the

Midlands The Midlands (also referred to as Central England) are a part of England that broadly correspond to the Kingdom of Mercia of the Early Middle Ages, bordered by Wales, Northern England and Southern England. The Midlands were important in the Ind ...

and Shropshire. It is described as a super-partnership which will generate efficiencies of scale when compared with traditional general practice in the UK. It claims that the constituent practices will retain their own operational autonomy. The partnership is proposing to lead

primary care network A Primary care network is a structure which brings general practitioners together on an area basis, possibly with other clinicians, to address chronic disease management and prevention. In 2022 the term is used in England, Singapore and Alberta. ...

s across the country including practices not in their organisation.

The Board

The board is made up of nine elected general practitioner partners – seven from Birmingham and two from Shropshire, an appointed practice manager and an operations director and finance director. It is also supported by an external strategic advisor. The board is responsible for the central functions, including accounting,

human resources Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include m ...

, finance and quality (including a care quality commission). The chair is Dr Vish Ratnasuriya MBE, a general practice partner at Lordswood House Medical Practice in

Harborne Harborne is an area of south-west Birmingham, England. It is one of the most affluent areas of the Midlands, southwest from Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in ...

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