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Ishani Patel is a GP partner in North West London and co-founder of Lantum a company formed “to help healthcare professionals unlock the complexity of staffing in today’s healthcare system” and part of the NHS Innovation Accelerator. Lantum have created a technological platform to support workforce mobilisation which is delivering a number of benefits including reducing agency spend, saving managers around four hours a week, improving fill-rate and even extending GP careers. In this episode Ishani explains, amongst other things, how the platform works, how it supports at-scale working and how it is likely to develop in the future.

Show Notes

What is Lantum? (59secs)

Helping to manage the workforce and helping individuals to manage their workload (1min 34secs)

A bit of the history and Ishani’s involvement (2mins 11secs)

A technological solution (3mins 04secs)

How it works and the benefits for practices (3mins 23secs)

The benefits for individual GPs (4mins 15secs)

How has the model developed? Working with a federation (4mins 40secs)

Working with the Our Health Partnership super-practice (6mins 03secs)

Not just a solution for GPs – expanding the platform (7mins 48secs)

Enabling at-scale working (8mins 23secs)

Dependent on cohesion (9mins 16secs)

Working with federations (9mins 56secs)

Overcoming reticence in pooling locums (10mins 30secs)

Does this technological solution mainly appeal to younger GPs (12mins 10secs)

Is this the death of the partnership model? (13mins 28secs)

No, but it does drive at-scale working (15mins 21secs)

Working with the NHS (16mins 20secs)

Innovating with independent general practice (17mins 48secs)

What are the biggest likely changes for general practice? (19mins 13secs)

The future for Lantum (21mins 03secs)

Finding out more (22mins 04secs)

Find out more by contacting Ishani via Linkedin or Twitter @drishanipatel or visit the Lantum website at www.lantum.com