Quay Health Solutions (QHS) is a group of 17 GP practices (member practices) in north Southwark. QHS has been given funding by NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to improve the quality of care in general practice and improve the health outcomes of local patients. As part of this, we support our member practices to deliver the Population Health Management Service contract, the Personal Medical Service contract, the Extended Primary Care Service and the Care Home Service.
Population Health Management Service (PHMS)
The PHMS contract began in April 2015. All member practices support the delivery of the PHMS contract. The services we offer as part of this contract include:
- Coordinated care for people with three or more long term conditions
- NHS Health Checks
- Annually reviewing people who have pre-diabetes
- Providing asthma and COPD inhaler reviews
- Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Personal Medical Service (PMS)
The PMS is a locally agreed contract between the CCG and individual GP practices. The PMS contract includes: providing flu vaccinations, supporting people who; have suffered from a stroke, have hypertension, have chronic heart disease or have diabetes. It also includes supporting people who are at the end of their lives. In north Southwark, QHS support our member practices with the delivery of the PMS primary care services for our population.
