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Nigel Grinstead is one of the UK’s foremost experts on General Practice operating at scale. He has been involved in most of the country’s largest and most successful GP partnerships. In this episode of our podcast he talks to Ben about the benefits and challenges of General Practice at scale and launches the new Provider Exchange website.

Show Notes

Nigel explains his transition from British Airways to the NHS and thence to General Practice (54secs)

Future-proofing new models of care in General Practice (1min 54secs)

The history of practices working at scale (3mins 46secs)

Operating at scale through mergers is only one answer (5mins 25secs)

To be a successful provider company you need to work at scale and have mature commissioners (7mins 06secs)

We need to liberate clinical leaders and reform CCGs (9mins 07secs)

Should GPs focus on provision? (10mins 47secs)

What support is available for GPs wanting to work at scale? (11mins 34secs)

Advice for practices facing recruitment and workload challenges (13mins 03secs)

Lessons from the places where it has gone wrong (14mins 33secs)

The role of practice management (16mins 41secs)

Establishing a provider network – Provider Exchange (17mins 54secs)

The role of Provider Exchange (19mins 10 secs)

Visit and use Provider Exchange (19mins 56secs)

The Provider Exchange website is at www.providerexchange.co.uk

Nigel can be contacted on 07710915934