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Podcast – Practice Index – The Cost of Living Crisis and General Practice

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With the nights now beginning to draw in, the reality of the cost-of-living crisis is looming large over general practice. With charges for heating, lighting, and overall maintenance of our premises going up, coupled with the impact of inflation on pay, the promised staff pay rises and the difficulty of balancing the books ever more challenging, and with all the usual winter pressures now around the corner…something has got to give. Our ever-popular Practice Index panel members, and Institute of General Practice Management (IGPM) directors, Robyn, and Nicola, return to discuss their own concerns, the approaches they are taking in their own practice areas, and share their thoughts about the key considerations for primary care, as a whole.

Introduction (0:09)

What has Nicola been up to since our last conversation? (0:22)

And what’s keeping Robyn busy right now? (0:43)

What are the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis at practice level? (0:59)

Balancing staff pay rises (2:35)

Maintenance of buildings and services and rising utilities costs (4:37)

Travelling, home visits, and fuel charges (5:25)

Staff turnover (6:39)

Patient health and wellbeing and the potential for a further increase in demand (8:03)

Implications for GP Partners (9:47)

Sustainability of the practice as a business (11:43)

Is there any support available? (13:04)

Action from the Institute of General Practice Management (14:02)

Making the primary care voice heard (15:14)

 

For all enquiries about the Practice Index / Ockham podcast, please contact James Dillon here or Ben Gowland here

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Podcast – Maddie Baker-Woods and Paul Little – Integrated Neighbourhood Teams

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Integrated Care Systems are here and with them, the advent of new ways of working and yet more healthcare terminology! Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) may be an original concept to many of us in general practice but in Suffolk and North East Essex, they have been in existence for a little bit longer. In this week’s podcast episode, sponsored by Livi, we are privileged to be joined by Maddie Baker-Woods, Director of Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance at Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, and Paul Little, Director for Integrated Health and Care at Suffolk County Council and East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, who explain how their own, established network of INTs work, how the teams interact with PCNs and primary care more widely, the challenges, and rewards, they have encountered on their own journey – and why localised care is key to meeting the needs of individual population areas, rather than a more widespread approach.

Introduction (0:09)

Meeting Maddie and Paul (1:06)

Maddie’s role (1:16)

All about Paul (2:09)

Building Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (3:00)

Organising services and a locality-based model (4:33)

Balancing relationships between integrated neighbourhoods and primary care networks (6:53)

Overcoming barriers (7:24)

Working with constraints and challenges (8:30)

How does general practice feed into the integrated neighbourhood teams? (9:08)

Accountability (10:48)

A place-based versus organisational (top down) approach (12:55)

The influence of local demographic (14:28)

Positive outcomes (15:42)

Helping people to be as independently functioning as possible (17:44)

Advice from Paul for others embarking on the same journey (18:51)

Maddie’s top tips (20:45)

Estates and co-location (21:06)

Where general practice should be prioritising their efforts (21:30)

Finding out more (24:14)

 

To learn more about the work of NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, check out their website here.

This podcast episode is sponsored by Livi, the first digital healthcare provider to be rated Outstanding by the CQC. Further information about Livi and what’s on offer can be found here.

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Podcast – Naj Seedat – Calling all new Partners (and those who think they’d like to be)!

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This week heralds the start of the new term and a return to weekly podcasts, and we are incredibly privileged to be joined by Dr Naj Seedat; GP Principal and Partner at a large practice in Ilford, northeast London, LMC Board member, GP appraiser and one of the founding fathers of his local GP federation. In this episode, Naj and Ben discuss the challenges faced by those new to GP partnership; the key considerations for those debating whether or not to make the leap into partnership, the experiences of both old hands and those who are just starting out, partnership in the context of the ever evolving primary care landscape, the rewards of partnership and why the New to General Practice Partnership Programme Naj and Ben are launching can be instrumental in shaping and supporting the journey to partnership, and beyond.

Introduction (0:09)

A bit about Naj (0:17)

What’s life in partnership like right now? (0:38)

Is partnership still an attractive prospect whilst nationalism of general practice is being mooted? (2:24)

Working autonomously (4:23)

Transition to partnership and how the programme can help (6:15)

Navigating the Human Resources minefield (9:03)

Managing finance (10:31)

Monitoring practice performance and local KPIs (13:34)

Understanding how to best manage your business and benchmarking progress (15:51)

The external environment / Integrated Care Systems (16:35)

Signing up to cohort three of the New to Partnership Programme (17:57)

It’s not just for GPs! (18:30)

Access to resources and knowledge (19:25)

The next cohort of the New to General Practice Partnership training programme begins on Tuesday 11 October. To find out more and to grab one of the remaining spaces, please follow this link.

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Podcast – Practice Index – The RCGP Veterans Healthcare Toolkit

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Our Practice Index Practice Manager panel return and this week, Robyn and Nicola are joined by two special guests, Brigadier Robin Simpson, RCGP Veterans Champion and Professor of Military Primary Healthcare and Veterans Health at the University of Chester, and by Darren Davies, former Royal Military Police Staff Sergeant, to highlight the issues faced by military veterans in accessing healthcare and how we in primary care can ensure there is better support for our veterans, post service, who frequently suffer in silence with seemingly invisible and escalating health conditions and concerns. With this in mind, the RCGP have launched their veterans’ healthcare toolkit and the GP practice veteran friendly accreditation, which offer insight and much needed guidance on making healthcare more accessible for those in our society who have sacrificed the most, but whose needs are all too often overlooked.

Introduction (0:09)

Congratulations to our Nicola! (0:22)

Meeting our guest panel members (0:41)

The advent of the veteran friendly practice programme (1:12)

What are the differences between recognised veteran friendly practice and those who aren’t yet accredited? (2:50)

Darren’s take on the initiative and the impact on veterans (4:08)

The struggle of those returning from tour and access to healthcare (5:37)

Comparison with the more established support systems in the US (6:38)

Promoting practice sign up within a landscape of competing demands (8:38)

The accreditation process (10:11)

Nicola and Robyn’s experiences of sign up (11:12)

PCN accreditation (13:30)

Meeting the health inequalities agenda (14:00)

Identification of a clinical lead (15:19)

What would it mean for veterans if every practice became accredited? – Robin’s perspective (15:52)

Darren’s view (18:14)

Finding out more and signing up (19:16)

 

If you’d like to find out more, or even better, spend 15 minutes signing up for the RCGP veteran friendly GP practice accreditation, we strongly encourage you to follow the link here.

For all enquiries about the Practice Index / Ockham podcast, please contact James Dillon or Ben Gowland.

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Podcast – Ben Gowland – Integrated Care Systems: My thoughts and advice for practices

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Here at Ockham, we are always keen to explore how we deliver high quality content to our audiences and this week Ben is trialling something new. In a change to our usual format, Ben has recorded a solo, “bite size” episode offering his thoughts and advice for practices about the implications of the changing healthcare landscape. Starting from the top, with what Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) actually are, how they are comprised and how resources and funding are likely to be organised, onto what the new systems mean for practices and staff on the ground, the influence of the Fuller Report, how we could and should react and where the priorities and challenges lie, we hope you find our latest podcast offering as insightful and informative as ever!

 

All by myself…. (0:09)

What are Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and why is the recent transition so fundamental? (0:36)

The history and lead up to integrated care (1:11)

Why size matters (2:32)

Priorities, challenges, and funding implications (2:57)

Partnership working with other providers (4:08)

Policy direction and the Fuller Report (5:06)

What do all the changes and proposals mean for individual practices? (7:58)

Local priorities; two approaches (9:02)

Maintaining independence whilst creating unity (10:39)

Why cohesive working and collaboration is key (12:07)

Working out how to best align to the strategic directives set out in the Fuller Report (12:52)

Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (14:17)

In Summary (16:16)

We need your feedback! (16:58)

 

We’d love to hear your views about Ben’s first solo podcast and whether you’ve found this shorter, summary edition helpful! Please do get in touch via email, via our website comment area, or via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook….

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