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Clover Practices: move away from joint contract
As you will be aware, Sheffield Health and Care Trust (SHSC) and Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) took on the contract for the Clover Group of practices in April 2016 to avoid closure of the practices and delivery a quality improvement programme.
The decision was taken two years ago by both organisations that day-to-day running of the practices should be led by PCS because of its expertise in delivering primary care services. There was subsequently agreement that a process be started to explore handing over the full contract to Primary Care Sheffield. This process has involved discussions with the commissioners and an ongoing consultation with all the staff involved.
The commissioners have now agreed in principle that this contractual change can happen from the 1 April 2021. However the detail is still being finalised. We will keep you all updated as the discussions continue.
Although we don’t believe there will be any impact on services or patient care we know that there may be other practices might have questions so please contact Lynsey Hughes if there is anything you would like to raise with us.
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