Launch of Chronic Pain Pilot Project in N Somerset
We are now running a pilot scheme in North Somerset involving practices and the hospital to trial our Chronic Pain Prescriber Tool. We had a fantastic response to our chronic pain practice questionnaire (over 85% of practices responded) and we are now creating local practice action plans to help improve how patients with chronic pain are managed.
Launch of Public-Private Partnership Toolkit
Description of Toolkit
The hybrid nature of PPPs makes them more complicated and under-researched than partnerships involving only public organisations or only private companies. PhD research reviewed the previous literature/theory, researched a series of case study partnerships across the country and developed a new framework to help understand these issues. It draws on elements of the Partnership Assessment Tool (‘PAT’) (Hardy et al., 2003) which has been extensively used in partnership research and has been independently verified as a usefulway of assessing the strengths and limitations of relationships within a partnership (Petch, 2008). This toolkit takes the PAT questions and uses the boundary wall framework developed from thePhD research to focus in particular on the role of boundary spanners within PPPs (i.e. how easy or otherwise it is to work across agency boundaries depends on the nature of the differences/divisions between partners – these are described in terms of a ‘wall’ and potential differences are explored in terms of the ‘height’, ‘density’ and ‘thickness’ of the wall, as well as the foundations on which the wall is built).
How can the Toolkit help you?
It provides material for a ‘diagnostic phase’(using tools tested during the PhD research to provide practical support to the development of the partnership). This will identify key barriers/success factors that need to be worked with for the partnership to be successful. It provides material to construct an Organisational Development (OD) plan for the partnership.
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Launch of Opioid Prescriber Tool
The Chronic Opioid Prescriber Tool identifies the most important influences on the prescribing behaviour of GPs within practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and their constituent practices; and sustainability transformational partnerships (STPs) when prescribing opioids. Click here to see a one page description of the Prescriber tool
