Practice Partners
Nobody and nothing in primary care operates in isolation — it’s the ultimate team environment.
Clinical and business issues are interdependent and neither can be compromised without impacting upon quality and sustainability; all of the various professions that make up this diverse workforce need one another to get the best job done. There are common needs that run across every primary care team, and it just makes sense to deliver these centrally.
In order to really make a difference, the whole-of-population and whole-of-system approaches, so necessary today, need substantial and sustained resources and focus.
Pegasus Health partners with its practices and their teams to provide support, resources and expertise in areas that are common clinical and business needs, including administration and paperwork that otherwise tie up valuable clinical time. It also provides IT support to practices for their day-to-day work in seeing patients, managing and accessing records, safely sharing information, developing new tools for a new era of healthcare, and keeping hardware, software and storage running smoothly.
Pegasus Health develops and runs preventive care programmes to keep patients as healthy as possible, and supports practices in delivering Ministry of Health initiatives, including B4SC (Before School Checks), immunisation, Appetite for Life and screening programmes. It takes care of patients when practices can’t, via the Pegasus Health 24 Hour Surgery, and provides innovative services to help practices keep their patients at home rather than sending them to hospital, when that can be done safely.
This year has seen a further extension of support for business owners though initiatives such as the Business Owners Forums and the launch of the Support Plus suite of services. These initiatives, developed in response to requests from our members, aim to make practice ownership easier and more attractive, and are available for those who choose to utilise them.