Eastern GP Federation Support Unit

Bradford Court
Galwally
Belfast
BT8 6RB
United Kingdom

Eastern FSU supports 8 GP Federations- 4 Belfast GP Federations & 4 GP Federations in the Southeast of Northern Ireland. Eastern FSU provides corporate affair duties at scale to its member Federations, on a local and regional basis. This model ensures management and administrative support is more cost effective for member Federations.

Eastern FSU employs over 20 staff to provide corporate & operational services and professional management at scale to its member GP Federations, on a local and regional basis. A GP Federation is a group of GP practices, established to address capacity workload issues within general practice. GP Federations enable practices to retain key aspects of their individuality whilst benefitting from being part of a largescale organisation, in receipt of NHS funding.

We enhance the services offered in primary care, developing primary care to reduce the burden on secondary care. Our clinical and non-clinical networks help us to drive innovation across our practices. Eastern FSU supports 8 GP Federations who cumulatively employ over 200 staff working as General Practice Pharmacists, Senior Mental Health Practitioners and Nurses.

By coming together within a largescale, primary care organisation, it enables economies of scale, not achievable by a single practice, such as:

- General practice pharmacy scheme - Nursing initiatives - Multi-disciplinary teams.

In addition, Eastern FSU manages a range of local and regional services, which patients benefit from, and we employ over 70 staff directly to deliver these including:

- Elective care services - Practice improvement and crisis response - Connected community care (social prescribing) - Practice based learning - Other ad hoc services

More information on our projects and services can be found on our website www.easternfsu.com