Referral Process
Referrals are received from the Department of Health’s, Strategic Planning and Performance Groups (SPPG) local offices.
Once the practice is referred, the PICRT managerial team and Clinical Lead arranges an initial meeting with the at-risk practice. They will make an assessment which helps formulate a short-medium term plan to keep the practice’s services in place, while seeking to design a longer term strategy to stabilise the practice.
Generally, the PICRT will assist practices for a period ranging from 3 to 12 months, based on the evaluated needs. There is an active review of the support given to practices to ensure practices are progressing with their recovery plan.
Resources that can be used include:
- A workload review;
- Requests for additional resources from Federations and SPPG;
- Input from members of a list of experienced GPs and Practice Managers that can be arranged to connect with the practices; and/or
- Sessional GP input.
PICRT encourage Practice Improvement and support practices with this. We will share learning and we believe this will further stabilise General Practice for a sustainable service for patients in NI.
Practice improvement resources can be found here and are free to use
Referral from SPPG
LMC / Federations can direct practices for referral by SPPG to PICRT.
Initial Assessment
Initial Assessments take place either via Zoom or face to face. An inital report from PICRT is produced.
Information Gathering
Practice will be asked to complete PICRT forms which will aid in providing our team with all the relevant information.
Recovery / Action Plan
Practice recovery plan / Action plan will be discussed with the practice and agreed.
Plan sent to SPPG
After agreeing the recovery plan, this will be finalised and sent to the practice and SPPG.
