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Dr Steve Kell was, until April this year, chair of Bassetlaw CCG and national co-chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners. In this podcast he explains to Ben why he has given up both of these roles and gone back to being a full-time GP. In particular, he talks about the exciting work his practice is undertaking as part of a pilot site for the Primary Care Home.

Show Notes

Steve explains his reasons for giving up the two non-core roles (1min 16secs)

A gap in primary care commissioning led Steve back to being a GP (2mins 20secs)

More time in the practice to develop General Practice (3mins 43secs)

Crucial role for GPs in clinical commissioning (4mins 06secs)

Is enough priority given nationally to the problems in General Practice? (4mins 58secs)

The Primary Care Home model (6secs 08secs)

The three main aims of the project (6mins 48secs)

The model in practice – the value of employing a pharmacist (7mins 23secs)

The demand for the pharmacist and how it started (8mins 27secs)

Advice to practices considering employing a pharmacist (9mins 17secs)

The model in practice – giving a home in practice to community staff (10mins 30secs)

Making co-location work – building a joint approach (11mins 16secs)

Developing the primary care team model (12mins 09secs)

Focussing on efficiencies (12mins 58secs)

How might the funding work in the future? (14mins 23secs)

The future direction of the Primary Care Home (15mins 12secs)

The general practice role in this development (15mins 41secs)

How does the Primary Care Home differ from the multi-specialty community provider model (13mins 26secs)

The model can address the problems facing general practice (16mins 54secs)

Making general practice more attractive for GPs (18mins 03secs)