About Us

GP Care was founded in response to the shift in NHS strategy toward providing appropriate diagnostic and outpatient care services closer to patient's homes, thereby improving patient convenience, relieving some of the capacity constraints within acute hospitals, and delivering efficiency savings to the NHS.

By recruiting highly skilled NHS clinicians and professional managers and building a comprehensive and robust clinical governance framework GP Care has been able not only to achieve the objective of delivering high quality NHS services closer to patients' homes, but also to radically improve the administrative efficiency with which they are delivered. In essence we are harnessing the generally excellent clinical care that is available within the NHS and tackling the poor administration that is often prevalent and can cause such distress to patients.

Some key guiding principles that we adhere to for our NHS patient services are:

• We only work up new services where we believe we can radically improve the patient experience AND deliver efficiency savings to the NHS;
• Wherever possible we only work with local NHS clinicians in the delivery of the services, thereby supporting the retention of strength and depth within the local NHS clinical teams.

As the NHS funding position has got tighter patients are experiencing an increasing list of procedures that are no longer funded by the NHS - a position that is disappointing not only for patients but also frustrating for GPs who would previously have been able to offer the required care. As a consequence GP Care took the decision to work up a very select range of high quality private patient services that utilise the inherent capability within GP Care's network of 100 GP practices and our relationships with hospital clinicians and are therefore delivered at a cost that is hugely more affordable for patients than it would be from traditional private healthcare providers.

Following the creation of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as the primary regulator for healthcare providers, GP Care successfully registered with the CQC in October 2010 and concluded a subsequent successful inspection visit in October 2011. As part of our governance principles we recognise our responsibility to carefully manage potential conflicts of interest and we do this by applying a strict ethical Conflict of Interest Code.

We don't claim to be perfect and are always looking for ways in which we can improve, but we believe that we have made a real and positive difference for patients on all of the services that we are delivering and we hope to continue doing so. We are a friendly, well meaning team of individuals, all of whom are patients ourselves, who are doing all that we can to help patients.