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Jon Griffiths is the GP Chair of Vale Royal CCG in Cheshire and the presenter of a recent TEDx talk on why he chose generalism over a specialist medical career. In this podcast he explains to Ben his passion for being a generalist and how he developed the talk. He also talks about the reaction to his views on this and other subjects from fellow clinicians and others.

Show Notes

How did the TEDx talk come about? (1min 11secs)

The audition process (2min 05secs)

Acceptance by TED (2min 30secs)

Detailed preparation – learning in full (2mins 59secs)

Practice makes perfect (4mins 31secs)

The whole process takes six months (5mins 28secs)

Is specialisation the cause of some patients’ problems? (6mins 45secs)

Do we give a higher status to specialists? (7mins 51secs)

Specialisation creates a clearer career destination (9mins 33secs)

Celebrating general practice (11mins)

The impact of working at scale on generalism (12mins 05secs)

GPs are good at collaboration (13mins 15secs)

Reaction from around the world to the talk (13mins 53secs)

Reaction from local GPs (15mins 22secs)

Speaking out honestly – leads to nervous reaction from the CCG (15mins 58secs)

Jon starts his own website to allow some independence from the CCG (17mins)

Negative reaction to Jon’s blogs (18mins 21secs)

Jon’s honesty can set the tone and advocate for general practice (18mins 21secs)

If you’d like to watch Jon’s TEDx talk you can find it on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BfcvI49GCw

Jon’s Blog can be found on his own website here https://drjongriffiths.wordpress.com/