We do this by:
Enabling member practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to thrive by providing additional services and capacity.
Supporting and developing practices, PCNs and partners through skills sharing, resources and corporate support.
Growing primary care by designing and delivering high quality services at scale so patients have access to more services closer to home.
We also work with partners across the health and care system, to help join the dots between GP practices, hospitals and community providers, providing more coordinated, cost effective and quality care.
Read more about how we work with partners in South Warwickshire Place and the wider Coventry & Warwickshire System.
Our values
- We are committed to the success of Primary Care and the SWGP purpose
- We strive to be the best we can be as individuals and as an organisation
- We care about each other and everyone we work with
- We are open and accountable
As a team, in partnership with our members and colleagues across the system, we are working to provide the best possible service for patients within the resources available.
We’re always looking for opportunities to improve, learn and adapt so that patients can benefit from services at scale while retaining the valuable personalised service offered by general practice.
Enhancing our impact and growing primary care
SWGP plays an increasingly important role in representing primary care within the Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care System and South Warwickshire Place, to:
- Generate income to fund support and services provided to practices and PCNs
- Compete for contracts that may not be available to practices or PCNs
- Achieve efficiencies that are only possible on a larger scale
- Increase the influence of primary care within the system
- Create the infrastructure and track record to increase future opportunities
- Generate income to fund the services we provide to practices and PCNs
- Compete for contracts that may not be available to practices or PCNs
- Achieve efficiencies that are only possible on a larger scale
- Increase the influence of primary care within the system
- Create the infrastructure and track record to increase future opportunities
Integrated Primary Care
Integrated Primary Care (IPC) is a partner organisation established and run by the four Coventry & Warwickshire GP Federations:
- South Warwickshire GP Federation
- Coventry & Rugby GP Alliance
- Primary Care Warwickshire (Warwickshire North)
- Rugby Health
With greater demand for services to be run ‘at scale’ across integrated care systems, IPC now delivers a number of patient and administrative services on behalf of Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board. These services are delivered to all practices in the C&W system.
Read more about our system-wide services
Strengthening services in South Warwickshire
We also work with health, social care and voluntary organisations as part of South Warwickshire Place to improve coordination and identify priority projects that we can work on together to improve outcomes for our communities.
Read more about South Warwickshire Place
South Warwickshire Patient Engagement
South Warwickshire Patient Engagement (SWPE) brings together Patient Participation Group Chairs from practices across our patch. Its purpose is to ensure that patient needs and preferences are considered in decisions affecting healthcare quality and delivery across South Warwickshire, particularly in primary care.
Read our SWPE case study on supporting carers
SWGP annual report
Case study: Mental health care coordinators
South Warwickshire Place Partnership project to support young people