Evaluation of the Coventry GP Alliance: Best Care, Anywhere: Integrating Primary Care in Coventry Programme

FUNDER

Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group

VALUE

£150,000

PROJECT TEAM

• Prof Aileen Clarke (Warwick University)
• Dr Olalekan Uthman, Dr Sudi Lahiri, Dr Wendy Robertson, Dr Clare Walker (Warwick University);
• Prof Beth Grunfeld, Prof Ala Szczepura, Prof Darrin Baines, Dr Katherine Brown, Simon Fielden, Prof Guy Daly (Coventry University)
• Dr Gill Combes, Prof Jon Glasby (Birmingham University).

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

The Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund has supported the establishment of ‘Best Care, Anywhere’, integrating primary care in Coventry. This aims to provide an integrated solution, improving primary care access and ensuring continuity of care through integrated pathways & interconnecting technology by setting up three high impact primary care schemes: (1) Extended hours hub, (2) Primary care frailty team, and (3) Primary care team in Emergency Department treating ambulatory cases.

The aim of this project is to use a mixed method approach incorporating patient and public engagement to comprehensively evaluate across the three intervention sites.

PROJECT WEBSITE

• Warwick University