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Continuing our mini-series of podcasts looking at other professional roles in General Practice, Ben talks to Dr Neil Langridge who is a Consultant Physiotherapist in a GP practice. He tells Ben about his work and the positive impact that it has had on patients and the GP workload.

Show Notes

Neil explains how he came to be a physiotherapist in General Practice (38secs)

The development of physiotherapists in General Practice (1mins 05secs)

Neil is a “First Contact” practitioner (1mins 40secs)

How does a consultant physiotherapist in a General Practice operate? (1mins 53secs)

Onward referrals to other professionals are very low (3mins 04secs)

A range of models are available (3secs 29secs)

The impact that a consultant physiotherapist can have (4mins 19secs)

How many patients does Neil see? (5mins 31secs)

What has been the impact on the workload for GPs? (6mins 16secs)

Where do you see the benefits? (7mins 10 secs)

It is different than self-referral to physiotherapy (7mins 30secs)

How independent is the physiotherapist? (8mins 23secs)

Plans for the future of Neil’s role in the local Primary Care Centre (9mins 18secs)

Additional funding from Health Education England to allow evaluation of the competencies (10mins 14secs)

How will physiotherapy work in General Practice in the future? (10mins 42secs)

How the role is funded now and in the future (11mins 53secs)

Maximising the benefits of a finite resource (12mins 27secs)

Neil achieves a better understanding of the GP role (13mins 26secs)

The patients are good at triaging themselves (14mins 29secs)

Demand is high but patients will wait (15mins 12secs)

Ensuring a future supply of physiotherapists (15mins 38secs)

Will physiotherapists move to work in a GP practice? (16mins 29secs)

Advice to practices who might be interested in working with a physiotherapy (17mins 13secs)

Neil suggests interested parties should contact the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Their website is available here. Neil can be contacted at neil.langridge@southernhealth.nhs.uk

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Wow! What an inspiring podcast we have this week as Ben talks to pharmacist Karen Acott. Karen was the country’s first ever pharmacist partner in a GP practice in 2004 and is now Chairman of a major GP federation in Devon. She tells Ben about the value to a practice of employing a pharmacist and provides inspiration to all professionals working in primary care.

Show Notes

Karen explains how she started out on her career (43secs)

The first pharmacist to be appointed as a partner (2mins 30secs)

Karen describes how she created the new role of pharmacist partner (2mins 49secs)

Advice for practices thinking of appointing a pharmacist (3mins 57secs)

Selling the business case for investing in a pharmacist (5mins 14secs)

The advantages of independent prescribers (6secs 20secs)

Training independent prescribers (6mins 58secs)

Independent prescribers are out there (7mins 33secs)

Karen was Pharmacy Professional of the Year in 2012 (8mins 08secs)

Cuts to community pharmacy and the Pharmacy Integration Fund (8mins 30secs)

The uneasy relationship between community pharmacies and GP practices (11mins 07secs)

Karen is chair of an 82 practice GP federation in Devon (12mins 47secs)

What is the federation delivering? (14mins 24secs)

Operating at scale in the future (15mins 18secs)

Advice for other pharmacists (16mins 20secs)