The Tameside General Practice Alliance (TGPA) is led by a Clinical Chair and Primary Care Network (PCN) Group Director Deputy Chair. The Board is made up of Clinical and Professional Leads and works to develop a unified leadership collective. The Alliance Chair is Dr Asad Ali.
Our ambition mirrors that of the Health and Care Bill and local partnership forums, specifically it will uphold the ambition of the NHS Triple Aim:
1) Better health and wellbeing for everyone with a system-level focus on reducing inequalities
2) Better quality of health services
3) Sustainable use of NHS resources
TGPA brings together the 31 General Practices and four Primary Care Networks across Tameside, plus the totality of their workforce, to develop quality healthcare services for the Tameside population. It works to ensure equity of offer and to remove unwarranted variation across member practices.
The Alliance recognises the power of collaboration, and will work together to develop innovative services which help to expand the service offer and access available to patients; recognising the need for a blend of both practice-based and hub-based services.
Our Principles
1) Represent the best interests of General Practice in Tameside.
2) Provide a unified General Practice view of how health and care is organised in Tameside.
3) Provide system-wide equitable care that addresses inequalities by prioritising the most vulnerable populations.
4) Listen to residents and develop effective services which respond to identified need.
5) Provide high quality, sustainable and equitable General Practice services.
6) Deliver services at the most advantageous spatial level.
7) Work collaboratively with partners to deliver integrated services.
8) Be accountable to each other and the people we serve, by monitoring and publishing progress.
9) Develop an equal partnership with the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector.
Our Priorities
1) Improve outcomes and address inequalities by providing support, challenge and guidance to member practices, reducing unwarranted variation in provision and outcomes across Tameside.
2) Work together at scale where this would be beneficial, for example workforce recruitment and retention, delivering enhanced services, addressing inequalities etc.
3) Strengthen the voice, resilience and opportunities of practices by working as a unified collective.
