ABOUT QUAY HEALTHCARE

Quay Healthcare started in 2014, as part of the Prime Minister’s challenge fund. We are a primary care support organisation, with all the GP practices in Warrington as shareholders. We have seen significant shifts in Primary Care demands and structures, since 2019 and now the amalgamation of Clinical Commissioning Groups into Integrated Care Systems (ICS). As these grow, collaboration between primary care providers and their wider system partners is growing too.

Many primary care providers are taking advantage of the independent layers of scale to deliver for patients, reducing duplication, improving equity of access and delivering the right care at the right time in the right place. There is not a one-size-fits-all model and there is still a long way to go for many primary care providers. But we are beginning to see robust primary care systems that benefit from the different expertise and opportunities available at neighbourhood, place and system.

Quay Healthcare considers primary care to be the ‘front-door’ for patients. The shareholders of the CIC have agreed to develop a range of innovative services which seek to support primary care, which go far beyond usual traditional GP service.

Currently we work with 4 PCNs in Warrington as well as provision of directly contracted NHS services.

Our Core Mission

To develop and deliver creative and innovative services, which reduce Primary Care, neighbourhood, place and system pressures, whilst improving health, wellbeing and outcomes of the population we serve, in Warrington and in the wider Northwest.

Our Approach

  • Assist Primary Care Networks with meeting the contractual requirements specified by the ICS and NHS England’s Long-Term Plan.
  • Identify and create solutions for Gaps or Pressures faced by Primary Care or the System as a whole.
  • Improve outcomes for patients and users, whilst reducing health inequalities.
  • Develop, train and support a first-class primary care workforce.
  • Work with the ICS at place and system level to build resilience in Primary Care.

Our Values

Passionate

enthusiastic and motivated team - can do

Integrity

honest and accountable

Team Work

act as a team in all we do

Quality

demonstrate outcomes we deliver

Communication

be clear and timely in communication and responses

Innovation

seek creative solutions to complex problems

Transparency

be open book about how we work and operate

What We Do

We deliver a range of services to support General Practice, these are :-

  • GP Extended Hours Service

  • Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Service
  • Serious Mental Illness Annual Health checks
  • Primary Care Network Support and Development plans
  • Vaccination Services
  • Covid Hot Hub and Mobile Clinic
  • Locum Staff support
  • Consultancy Hosting
  • Estate Management and Development Consultancy