This year five pilot sites with innovative commercial ideas to support the NHS and primary care were selected to join the Royal College of General Practitioners flagship Innovators Mentorship Programme (IMP). The selected pilot sites join the programme as collaborative organisations (including federations, clusters and super-partnerships or similar) who are eager to work with GP entrepreneurs as pilot sites, supporting the testing and evaluation of innovations.
The five pilot sites are:
Medway Innovation Hub (MiH), Pilot Site Lead: Mayur Vibhuti
MiH is an innovation hub hosted by Medway Clinical Commissioning Group. Co-founded by Sarah Leng and Mayur Vibhuti, the innovation hub has a focus on quality improvement methodology to measure change and success.
One Care (BNSSG) Ltd, Pilot Site Lead: Scott Godley
One Care (BNSSG) C.I.C is a GP Federation that represents and supports 83 practices across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, who together provide care for around one million patients. We support general practice in a number of areas like CQC, improved access, digital, analytics and much more.
South Westminster PCN, Pilot Site Lead: Jan Maniera
South Westminster PCN has a number of diverse practices within the PCN and has change management expertise and knowledge of medical devices. The PCN also has experience of taking new innovations to multiple sites within the PCN.
Sunderland GP Alliance, Pilot Site Lead: John Twelves
Sunderland GP Alliance is a GP Federation covering approximately 95% of patients across Sunderland. The Alliance also provides extended access services to the city’s entire 284,000 patients, organises and inputs into multi-disciplinary teams, participates in the national Clinical Pharmacy Pilot and runs Career Start schemes for GPs, practices nurses and HCAs.
AT Group, Pilot Site Lead: Omar Din
AT Group is a group of three organisations: AT Medics, AT tech and AT Learning. It is a leading super partnership with a history of developing innovations and rolling them out nationwide.