Originally established in September 2018, Brunel Health Group (BHG) is a collaboration of primary care providers that has grown over the last 6 years providing healthcare to over 190,000 patients across Swindon and Shrivenham.

The aim of BHG is to develop and deliver services collaboratively across the BHG and GP practice membership to optimise the health and wellbeing of our population across Swindon and Shrivenham through:

• Strengthening capacity through multidisciplinary working to deliver services in the community through direct provision or contracting
• Improving local integration of services
• Achieving efficiencies of scale and scope
• Use of population health management and outcomes of research to support service change.

Achievements to date

Since we were established in 2018, Brunel Health Group and its practice membership have delivered the following:

• Successful roll out and delivery of our local Covid Vaccination Programme at STEAM
• Recruitment to a range of roles within practices to enhance the primary care team ensuring that patients are seen by the most appropriate clinician, and not necessarily a GP e.g. Clinical Pharmacist, Health and Well Being Advisors, First Contact Physiotherapists, Mental Health Nurses and Paramedics.
• Improving access to services outside of normal working hours or through alternative provision e.g. our Enhanced Access Clinics operating a range of clinics and support across two sites on a Saturday and the provision of a GP telephone consultation service through Livi.
• Provision of dedicated Children and Young Persons Clinic on Saturdays and Mondays to support the health and care system response to our annual winter pressures and demand;

We are constantly exploring new opportunities to develop services for all our practice members, reducing bureaucracy and focusing scarce resources to service delivery and improving health care for our patients.