Negotiating parties

This UK-wide group continues its work on the review of the GMS contract with the GPC and the four health departments.

Membership of the plenary group is as follows:

• GPC Negotiators
• Department of Health
• Welsh Assembly
• Scottish Executive
• Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland

NHS Employers Secretariat

NHS Employers
29 Bressenden Place
London SW1E 5DD
Tel 020 7074 3200
Fax 020 70743201

Andrew Clapperton
Head of Primary Care Workforce and Contracting
Tel 0113 306 3230
Email andrew.clapperton@nhsemployers.org
Andrew holds a strategic leadership role within the team and provides high level links to the Department of Health and other key stakeholder bodies.

Taryn Harding
Primary Care Workforce and Contracting Manager
Tel 020 7074 3258
Email taryn.harding@nhsemployers.org
Taryn oversees the work around the community pharmacy contractual framework. She also leads on some GMS workstreams including IM&T, finance and access and is the main link into the NHS Confederation's PCT Network

Marie-Claire Demblon
Project Manager (QOF & Patient Experience)
Tel 020 70743259
Email marie-claire.demblon@nhsemployers.org
Marie-Claire heads up the work on the Quality and Outcomes Framework, the Patient Experience survey, Vaccinations and Immunisations, and clinical input to DESs. Marie-Claire is currently on maternity leave until March 2009.

Sarah Bridger
Primary Care Workforce and Contracting Officer
Tel 020 7074 3256
Email sarah.bridger@nhsemployers.org
Sarah project manages the work around the community pharmacy contractual framework. She also leads on various areas of the GMS contract, including dispensing doctors.

Raechel Newell
Raechel is the personal assistant to Andrew Clapperton and is also responsible for the secretariat support to the GMS contract negotiations. She will be supporting the QOF work programme in Marie-Claire Demblon's absence.
Tel 0113 3063056
Email raechel.newell@nhsemployers.org

Implementation

For further information on the implementation of primary care contracts, please visit the NHS Primary Care Contracting website. On this site, you can also find contact details for the implementation team.

NHS Employers Core Team

Barbara Hakin OBE (Chair) is currently Chief Executive of East Midlands SHA. She was previously Chief Executive at Bradford and South West PCT. With 20 years of experience as a GP in Bradford, Barbara also led the national development programme for PCTs and was director of primary care in the Modernisation Agency. Barbara was a member of the Modernisation Board and continues to act as a PCT advisor to the Department of Health.

Stephen Golledge (Vice Chair) was Chief Executive of West Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust from 2002 until 2006. He is currently working for NHS East Midlands. Stephen has worked in the NHS for over 30 years and has held Chief Officer posts in Avon Family Practitioner Committee and Gloucester Family Health Services Authority. He was seconded to Chief Executive posts in two Wiltshire PCTs during parts of 2003/04 and 2004/05 and joined the GMS negotiating team in July 2005. Stephen is the lead negotiator on Enhanced Services.

Adrian Jacobs was the Director of Primary Care at Torbay Care Trust, and is now working on various projects for the NHS in the South West region. He has been on the negotiating team since the first round of negotiations. Adrian is a key negotiator on the QOF review group.

Peter Dickson is Medical Director at Bradford and Airedale tPCT and joined the core negotiating team in April 2005. Prior to joining the negotiating team, Peter completed a secondment to the Workforce Directorate at the DH working on recruitment and retention issues in primary care. Peter jointly chairs the QOF review team with Brian Dunn at the GPC.

Alex Farrell joined the NHS Employers negotiating team in July 2008, specialising in the financial workstreams relating to GMS negotiations. Alex has worked in Finance in the NHS since 1991 in both provider and commissioning organisations. Alex is currently Director of Finance and Deputy Chief Executive at Calderdale PCT. Prior to that she was Assistant Director of Finance with Bradford City PCT and Director of Finance and Commissioning with East Leeds PCT.

NHS Employers QOF review team

Peter Dickson chairs the QOF review and is joined by Adrian Jacobs to negotiate this section of the contract.

NHS Employers Enhanced Services Sub Group

Stephen Golledge leads the negotiations in this sub group.