West Wakefield Health and Wellbeing Ltd is a
Multispecialty community provider established in 2015 based on a federation of six neighbouring GP practices in
Wakefield which was initially funded by the
Prime Minister's Challenge Fund
The Prime Minister's Challenge Fund was established in October 2013 with £50 million for NHS England to help improve access to general practice and stimulate innovative ways of providing primary care services.
Pilots
Twenty pilots were annou ...
to extend GP opening hours. working with Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group
The practices involved are
* Church Street Surgery
* Orchard Croft Medical Centre
* Lupset Health Centre
* Prospect Surgery
* Middlestown Medical Centre
* Chapelthorpe Medical Centre
The company employed
McChrystal Group
McChrystal Group LLC is an advisory services, management consulting, and leadership development firm. It was founded in 2011 by Stanley McChrystal, a retired United States Army four-star general best known for his command of Joint Special Operatio ...
based in Alexandria,
Virginia at a cost of £420,000 to provide consultancy services. Funding came from the NHS New Models of Care Programme.
It claims to have saved 9,000 hours of GP time with pharmacists so far. It has established a
social prescribing service. Care navigators have been recruited to signpost patients to local appropriate services. 114 had been trained by May 2016.
The HealthPod offers health checks in convenient locations, such as supermarket car parks. 16 sessions were delivered in April 2016, and 288 people participated.
It arranges assessments by a physiotherapist in the GP practice for patients with orthopaedic problems.
It works with Wakefield Connecting Care, another vanguard project established under the
Five Year Forward View which delivers enhanced health in care homes.
It was managed and created by Dr Chris Jones and Sarah Fatchett. Leading the team to win both Prime Minister Challenge Fund and Vanguard monies.
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Medical and health organisations based in England
General practice organizations
Health in Yorkshire
Organisations based in Wakefield