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Ben’s special guest for the second week is Dr Nikki Kanani, Director of Primary Care for NHS England. You can listen to the first episode here. In this second part she addresses the concerns of podcast listeners about primary care networks including population size, hosting of the networks and the role of federations. She looks at how clinical leaders should be identified and focuses in detail on the timetable from March 2019 onwards and what practices should be doing now to guarantee success.

Show Notes

Questions from listeners – Why a 30-50,000 population for networks? (0:40)

Degrees of flexibility with population size (2:10)

Agreement required from CCG and the LMC (3:02)

Can one practice be a network? (3:32)

Resolving disagreements over scale and coverage (4:13)

Who hosts the networks? (5:22)

What does this mean for federations? Is it the end? (7:04)

Being part of a network and a federation…the roles (8:16)

Clinical leaders – should they move from CCGs to networks? (9:32)

Genuine “bottom-up” leadership (10:46)

Building a new style of leadership (11:42)

Up to the practices who leads them (12:45)

Critical success factors – start with consolidating your relationships (13:12)

The timetable from March 2019 (14:49)

Hope and optimism… (15:58)

More information – What’s App group and NHS England website (17:08)

Nikki’s commitment to the process (18:33)

The NHS England Website is here

The contact Nikki mentions is england.pcn@nhs.net