case study
ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS WINNING
Independent primary care services are finding it a struggle to compete against larger corporations when it comes to schemes like Any Qualified Provider. JULIA DENNISON speaks to PETER MASTERS, business manager of Caradoc Medical Services, a non-profit GP buying consortium made up of Shropshire doctors, to find out why he thinks two heads – or more – are better than one when it comes to surviving on your own (or almost on your own)
24 october 2013
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eter Masters’s day job is as primary care manager of Shropshire Doctors Cooperative, or ShropDoc, a non-
profit GP buying consortium owned by 300 GPs that runs out-of-hours services across Shropshire, Telford and Powys using only local doctors. All was going well for the provider until five years ago, when it, like many other purveyors of healthcare across Britain, began to suffer from mounting funding pressure. Masters and his colleagues had to find some way to save money to keep ends meeting, so they decided to look at building up an economy of scale.
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