Amanda Pritchard the Chief Executive Officer of NHS England visited the practice in January this year along with Mark Fisher the Chief Executive of NHS Greater Manchester and James McLean the Joint Regional Chief Nurse.
They spent time with some of our team discussing women’s health and homeless healthcare. Staff members came in on their days off to meet them and talk about the services we provide so that we didn’t disrupt our patients.
They enjoyed looking at our mobile clinical unit (van) and hearing about the different services that we offer in the practice and off site in hospitals, day centres and on the streets.
On 12 June 2024, Amanda mentioned our practice in her keynote speech at the NHS Confederation Expo.
Here is what she said “I saw that here in Manchester in January at the Ancoats Primary Care Centre. I heard there from an incredible practice manager, about how they were delivering responsive urgent care to a large population. But I also saw the work they were doing to prevent need developing. So their data showed that homeless women faced the most serious health inequalities and just weren’t coming into the surgery.
So, they bought a van. They kitted it out. And they worked with homeless charities to offer sexual health services where those communities were – where they are, using the opportunity to identify people who then needed more help.
There are countless examples like that across the country.
You can see her keynote speech here NHS England » Amanda Pritchard speech to NHS ConfedExpo conference, 12 June 2024