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Something different this week; the tables are turned with Ben Gowland in the hot seat explaining the importance of the new GP contract. Ben, presenter of the General Practice Podcast and Principal Consultant for Ockham Healthcare, explains why the new GP contract is a huge opportunity and gives him optimism for the future. He describes the way that the additional £2.8bn attached to the contract will flow, how primary care networks will be developed and how they will be staffed. He also gives practical advice to practices about what they should be doing now, in preparation for the year ahead.

Show Notes

How significant is the new GP contract? (0:43)

More impactful than the GP Forward View and the most important GP document since the 2004 contract (1:44)

A five year contract with £2.8bn attached – and most of it going direct into general practice (2:24)

Tackling financial problems; indemnity and pensions (4:05)

Moving away from individual practices to networks; a restructure of general practice (4:54)

Networks of GPs to facilitate integration (6:12)

Appointments available to 111 – no practice is an island (7:08)

Why are these networks different to the Primary Care Home for instance (8:05)

Money is coming to support networks and for non-GP clinical staff (9:00)

The networks will be responsible for delivering services (10:09)

Where are these extra staff coming from? (10:58)

The process for establishing networks (12:24)

Decisions by the end of April (13:36)

Practices who don’t wish to take part will lose the money (14:35)

What should practices be doing now? (15:34)

Optimism for the future (16:37)

If you’d like to contact Ben email him ben@ockham.healthcare