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Phil Coates is a practice management consultant and an expert on the new General Data Protection Regulation which comes into force on 25^th May 2018. In this podcast Phil explains how the GDPR will impact on general practices and what practices should be doing now to prepare. He covers the new roles required by the regulation and offers a number of places where practices can find additional support.

Show Notes

What is GDPR? (45secs)

Organisations need to review all their data handling (1min 48secs)

Why is 25^th May important? (2min 14secs)

Impact on GP practices (3mins 14secs)

What should practices be doing now? (4mins 39secs)

Undertaking a data mapping exercise (5mins 27secs)

Whose personal data is being processed? What? When? And where? (7mins 01secs)

How does this link with consent? (8mins 50secs)

Implied consent and objection (10mins 03secs)

Explicit consent and third party requests (11mins 10secs)

Can practices charge a fee for access to data? (11mins 47secs)

Guidance awaited from the BMA (12mins 32secs)

When practices can and can’t charge (12mins 49secs)

Data Controller and Data Processor (13mins 41secs)

The Data Protection Officer (14mins 56secs)

Approaches to the Data Controller role (16mins 20secs)

Is additional training required? Where can we get additional information from? (17mins 40secs)

Additional information is available from the following places:

The Information Governance Alliance

The Information Commissioners Office

EU GDPR Website

BMA Website

On the Practice Index site you’ll find the following links:

GDPR eLearning course in the Hub

GDPR: What’s available?

GDPR policy

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Judith Harvey writes regularly for the National Association of Sessional GPs newsletter and other GP publications. Her articles have now been gathered into a recently published book; Perspectives. Judith’s interests range from the Cuban health system (she founded the charity Cuba Medical Link to enable students to travel to Cuba for their electives) to self-prescribing by GPs and from her own experiences with concussion to the social pressure put on potential organ donors. Ben talks to Judith about her life, her career and her writing.

Show Notes

Judith’s progress from GP to published author (53secs)

From partner to sessional GP (1min 36secs)

Contributing to the NASGP newsletter (2min 17secs)

Writing about drugs following a visit to Columbia (3mins 29secs)

Just say “no” doesn’t work (3mins 58secs)

Reaction to the articles (5mins)

“Prescribing for Shrimps” – medication and the environment (5mins 27secs)

Judith’s experience of concussion (6mins 42secs)

Three months recovery (7mins 33secs)

Admiration for the Cuban health system (8mins 18secs)

Setting up Cuban Medical Link (8mins 58secs)

Could we learn from Cuba? (9mins 52secs)

Training of junior doctors (11mins 18secs)

Giving up or stopping? – moving on from medicine (11mins 46secs)

Advice for GPs just starting out (13mins 34secs)

Buying Judith’s book (14mins 06secs)

You can purchase Judith’s book from Amazon here.

Ben’s review of Perspectives by Judith Harvey can be found here.

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William Bird is a GP from Reading and is the CEO and founder of Intelligent Health (“…dedicated to increasing physical activity and improving the health of communities around the world”). In this podcast he explains to Ben how his career has been focussed on encouraging physical activity as a means of improving health and happiness. He talks Ben through a number of schemes including Health Walks, the Green Gym and Beat the Street. He finishes by eloquently summarising how he believes we could, as a race of hunter-gatherers, shift the focus from illness to wellbeing.

Show Notes

William has his own Wikipedia entry (54secs)

William becomes a GP as the result of a tragedy (1min 15secs)

The beginning of his interest in wellness (1min 57secs)

Health walks (2mins 36secs)

The origin and development of health walks (2mins 59secs)

Volunteers lead the walks (4mins 37secs)

The walks go national (5mins 10secs)

The ideal community size (5mins 48secs)

Setting up the Green Gym (6mins 58secs)

Combining conservation work with wellbeing (8mins 18secs)

The roll of Intelligent Health (9mins 26secs)

Beat the Street (10mins 03secs)

Points mean prizes (and wellbeing) (11mins 03secs)

Successful increases in activity (11mins 58secs)

Coverage of Beat the Street (12mins 56secs)

The process of establishing a Beat the Street game (13mins 54secs)

Funding the games (15mins 06secs)

Making the shift to wellness – wrong to solely focus on the frequent flyers (16mins 21secs)

Early diagnosis is more important (18mins)

William plugs his book! The Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health (18mins 23secs)

A summary of where we should be going… avoiding stress becoming ill health (18mins 50secs)

Impulsive behaviour of hunter-gatherers (19mins 58secs)

The social determinants (20mins 38secs)

The big three causes of disease (21mins 35secs)

Focussing much earlier on wellbeing (22mins 28secs)

Finding out more (23mins 02secs)

The Intelligent Health website is www.intelligenthealth.co.uk

Contact William: William.bird@intelligenthealth.co.uk

William’s Book is available on Amazon here