1. Macmillan Cancer Support in association with Wales Cancer Network PRESENT How many GPs does it take to fix a cancer service? (a Primary Care Production)

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3. Act 1
It’s 2012, and the Welsh Government develop a Cancer Delivery Plan for Wales.
Primary care were hopeful…

4. “Health Boards will develop Primary Care Oncology”

5. “What? Is that it?!”
Two bright sparks have a cunning plan…
“Primary Care Oncology? Lets define it for them!”

6. The cunning plan!
Wales-wide, recruiting GPs and nurses who would support and develop primary care clinicians to deliver good cancer care
Work with secondary care to integrate services and promote good communication and co-working
Develop a community of practice that could share good practice and innovation, adopting a ‘once for Wales’ approach

7. So what happened next?
INFLUENCING Our ‘bright sparks’ need to convince others this is a good idea

8. The cast of others
• Welsh Government……… Karen Gully, SMO, and various politicians
• Health Boards/Velindre… A variety of Medical Directors and Managers
• Wales Cancer Networks…Tom Crosby, Med. Dir.
• Macmillan……………………..Lots of people in Macmillan UK!

9. Interval
How could the ‘bright sparks’ convince the characters in our story to support their cunning plan? 

10. Act 2 Making it happen…

11. Engagement
Discussion with…Medical Directors, Assoc. Medical Directors for Primary Care, Directors of Nursing, Directors of Planning, Directors of Primary and Community Care, Cancer Leads, Meeting with Minister for Health and Social Care… (phew!)
Memorandum of Understanding and Agreement signed between Macmillan, Chair of Wales Cancer Implementation Group and Cancer Network
Letters of support received from all Health Boards/Velindre CEOs
Launch event June 2015

12. Where are we now?
We now have a team of 7 GPs and 4 Nurses working across Wales
We are supporting the set up of a Rapid Diagnosis Centre
We are participating in the Bevan Foundation ‘Exemplar’ programme
Leading pilot projects funded by the Welsh Govt Innovation Fund
Designed a Cancer National Clinical Priority that has been included in the GP contract
Whole team contributed to the re-fresh of the cancer delivery plan
Nursing team supporting practice nurses and developing projects
Commissioned evaluation of phase 1 (including baseline and scoping)

13. What we learnt …
Recruitment is challenging (8 different HR departments and operational structures)
Executive Level support doesn’t automatically translate into active support from operational teams
Make yourself visible
Make yourself useful
Recruitment always takes longer than you think
Suitable candidates won’t always “appear” – sometimes you have to “chase” a star signing
Be adaptable
Critical friends are vital
Come up and see me some time…and I may consider Macmillan Framework for Primary Care!

14. Is it fixed yet? Was it broken in the first place?
GPs sometimes seen as part of the problem
Primary Care now part of the solution
Move from “running repairs” to “annual service and maintenance”

15. The real crew…

16. The End (well, not really – just a good start)