Bolton GP Federation is a collective vehicle where Bolton’s GPs and GP practice teams (who form our board and hold us to account on behalf of Primary Care Networks and practices) come together to deliver primary care services.

From its inception, the federation has worked on a subsidiarity principle. This means it can be the provider of first and last resort, acting for and on behalf of practices – first resort for services at scale, and last resort where practices and PCNs can’t or don’t want to provide a service. The federation can use scale to support and develop general practice.