27
aug
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Episode 125: Paula Wright – The retained GP scheme

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Regular listeners will remember Paula Wright from Episode 117 when she talked to Ben about GP learning groups. In this episode Paula (who is a GP in the North East of England and GP tutor for Newcastle, Health Education England – North East team) highlights the retained GP scheme, designed to keep GPs who are at risk of leaving, in the workforce. Paula explains how the scheme works, the financial support for both GPs and practices, the application process and much more.

Show Notes

Paula explains her involvement in the scheme (1min 02secs)

The retained GP scheme explained (1min 33secs)

Creating posts specific to individuals who might otherwise leave (2mins 42secs)

Financial support for both GPs and practices (3mins 58secs)

Making it worthwhile for practices (5mins 22secs)

Making it worthwhile for GPs (6mins 05secs)

The eligibility criteria (7mins 01secs)

Defining “at risk of leaving” (7mins 48secs)

The application process (8mins 57secs)

Could practices be generally “approved” to take retained GPs? (9mins 39secs)

No additional GP locum work (11mins 15secs)

Building an effective job plan (12mins 11secs)

Individual job plans including mentoring time and CPD (13mins 56secs)

Is there the potential for resentment towards retained GPs (15mins 19secs)

Finding out more (16mins 20secs)

Ben explains more about the flexibility of the scheme (17mins 36secs)

The NHS England guidance on the scheme can be found here

The Retention Scheme FAQs can be found here

The BMA guidance for the scheme can be found here

Paula’s YouTube video on the scheme can be found here

20
aug
0

Episode 124: Nick Sharples– Social prescribing

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Social prescribing is one of the Ten High Impact Changes from the GP Forward View. But what is it? How does it work and who can benefit? In this week’s podcast Ben speaks with Nick Sharples from training consultancy DNA Insight. Nick explains how his involvement in social prescribing evolved from his company’s focus on active signposting (listen to our previous podcast with Nick here). He also explains the three factors which will enable social prescribing to work best, how it is likely to evolve and much more.

Show Notes

Nick explains how he developed an interest in social prescribing as a step on from care navigation (44secs)

How social prescribing works (1min 27secs)

The services available to which patients can be guided (2mins 16secs)

The language around social prescribing (3mins 08secs)

The evidence around social prescribing (4mins 42secs)

What makes it work well – the three critical success factors (5mins 46secs)

Different models of social prescribing (7mins 24secs)

How social prescribers work with patients (9mins)

Integrating social prescribing services and making savings (10mins 07secs)

Concerns of the voluntary sector (11mins 56secs)

How will social prescribing evolve? (12mins 54secs)

Social prescribing and population sizes (14mins 05secs)

Funding social prescribing (15mins 25secs)

The services Nick’s company offers (16mins 40secs)

Finding out more (17mins 39secs)

Nick’s website is available at www.dnainsight.co.uk

13
aug
0

Episode 123: What impact will millennials have on general practice in the future – an expert panel discussion – Part 2

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Here is the second part of our expert panel discussion considering the impact of millennials on general practice. In this part the panel considers the impact of the differing needs of millennial patients, how disruption and innovation will continue to influence and whether, ultimately, millennials pose an opportunity or a threat.

If you missed Part One you can find it here.

The panel consists of:

Surina Chibber: a GP and founder of My Locum Manager

Aisha Malik: a GP, social media strategist and founder of Doctors in Business

Mayur Vibhuti: a GP and Visiting Reader in Medical Leadership at Canterbury and Christchurch University

Show Notes

Ben continues the discussion by opening it out to consider millennial patients (1min 03secs)

Mayur responds on the unmet needs of millennial patients and how GP at Hand filled one of those needs and how the GP crisis affects this (2min 02secs)

Aisha wants to preserve the GP/patient relationship (3mins 49secs)

Surina considers where investment needs to take place to encourage further innovation (4mins 45secs)

Ben doubts that general practice will be able to control disruption (6mins 15secs)

Surina feels that disruption is a good thing but the pace of change in the NHS will hold things back (6mins 44secs)

Aisha fears that the NHS cannot keep up with the pace of innovation and that external bodies will drive it (8mins 04secs)

Mayur considers the increasing pace of change and the fate of those that will resist it (8mins 41secs)

Ben asks whether millennials are an opportunity or a threat and suggests that general practice is in the best place to make change happen (11mins 14secs)

Mayur sees the opportunities but believes new and old doctors should mentor each other (12mins 37secs)

Surina sees technology as a great opportunity but must be done in the right way (13mins 56secs)

Aisha feels that general practice must continue to grow and that necessity will be the Mother of invention (14mins 54secs)

Ben sums up (15mins 40secs)

 

 

6
aug
0

Episode 122: What impact will millennials have on general practice in the future – an expert panel discussion

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Here is the first part of our fourth expert panel discussion. This time we are looking at what will be the impact of millennials on general practice. In this first part the panel considers what a millennial is, what is driving them to be different to the older generation and how the system might need to change to accommodate this new generation.

Part Two will follow next week.

This time Ben is joined by:

Surina Chibber: a GP and founder of My Locum Manager

Aisha Malik: a GP, social media strategist and founder of Doctors in Business

Mayur Vibhuti: a GP and Visiting Reader in Medical Leadership at Canterbury and Christchurch University

Show Notes

Ben starts by asking for a definition of millennials (1min 03secs)

Mayur responds with a definition and provides some attributed characteristics (1min 24secs)

Surina admits to being a millennial and links the definition to general practice (2mins 07secs)

Aisha looks at the positive and negative connotations of the term (3mins 03secs)

Ben asks what is creating the idea of the millennial GP (3mins 57secs)

Aisha believes that pressure on GPs is driving millennials (4mins 35secs)

Mayur talks about the technological revolution (5mins 03secs)

Ben raises the idea of a tension between millennials and the previous generation (6mins 51secs)

Surina talks about a change of mind-set driving GPs rather than a difference in generations (7mins 20secs)

Ben asks whether concerns about a difficult future are pushing millennials to demand more now (8mins 45secs)

Aisha agrees and talks about morale in the profession (9mins 12secs)

Mayur agrees and talks about role-modelling (10mins 11secs)

Ben asks what this means for GPs in the future (11mins 09secs)

Mayur believes general practice will adapt but needs to change the way in works (11mins 50secs)

Surina talks about developing My Locum Manager and how this was influenced by millennials  (12mins 59secs)

How do we change the system? (14mins 02secs)

Ben asks whether the partnership model will survive millennials (15mins 23secs)

Yes, says Aisha, but must be flexible to retain millennials (15mins 53secs)

Ben queries who will be the partners for the future if everyone wants flexibility (17mins 13secs)

Surina talks about her husband – who is a partner and father (17mins 31secs)

Aisha recognises a lack of GPs is key (18mins 57secs)

Mayur wants to create a new partnership model based on networks of staff and patients (19mins 30secs)

Ben talks about the vanguards and differing models of general practice (21mins 11secs)

Mayur believes the culture of general practice must change for millennials to step up to be partners (22mins 17secs)

Ben asks what needs to be different and Mayur responds (23mins 20secs)

Aisha believes GPs must be at the centre of describing a new future (24mins 12secs)

30
jul
1

Episode 121: Duncan Petty – A pioneer for pharmacists working in general practice

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This is the second in our short summer series of pharmacy-focussed podcasts. In this episode Ben talks to Duncan Petty who runs Prescribing Support Services, one of the largest suppliers of pharmacists to general practice. Duncan, who was one of the first clinical pharmacists to be employed in general practice, explains the prerequisites necessary for pharmacists to work well in general practice, the benefits they bring, how at-scale working impacts on them and how they can deliver prescribing savings. He also explains his vision for the future of primary care based pharmacy.

Show Notes

Duncan starts out as a hospital pharmacist (53secs)

Duncan is one of the first pharmacists to work in general practice (1min 44secs)

Duncan sets up Prescribing Support Services (2mins 05secs)

What Prescribing Support Services does (2mins 34secs)

Pharmacists working in general practice – how it works (3mins 41secs)

What makes it work well – the critical success factors (5mins 23secs)

The costs of indemnity for pharmacists (6mins 46secs)

The benefits of pharmacists in general practice (7mins 49secs)

How at-scale general practice impacts on pharmacists (9mins 22secs)

Pharmacists working from hubs versus those employed by a practice (10mins 59secs)

Setting up a hub (11mins 49secs)

Delivering prescribing savings (12mins 20secs)

Commercial sponsorship from pharma (13mins 59secs)

The relationship between community pharmacy and practices (14mins 54secs)

A vision for community pharmacy (16mins 07secs)

Pharmacists working together (17mins 43secs)

Finding out more (19mins)

Duncan’s business website is www.prescribingsupportservices.co.uk

The Primary Care Pharmacy Association website can be found here

The Optimed Healthcare site is available here

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