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Nish Manek is a GP trainee. She is also, for this year, on the prestigious National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow scheme – which is designed to fast track doctors in training “…who present with the clearest potential to develop as medical leaders of the future”. In this role she is spending 12 months working alongside Dr Arvind Madan, NHS England’s Director of Primary Care. In this podcast Nish eloquently and enthusiastically advocates for general practice as a career and outlines her hopes and expectations for the future. She explains the benefits of being on the Clinical Fellow scheme and talks about Next Generation GP, the programme she has co-developed for aspiring leaders in general practice.

Show Notes

What is the Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme? (54secs)

Working alongside Arvind Madan and Sir Bruce Keogh (1min 48secs)

National decision making is more complex than expected (2mins 41secs)

Experiencing the new models of care (4mins 11secs)

Choosing general practice – “…feels like real medicine” (4mins 40secs)

The crisis in general practice – “…pain in the system” (5mins 56secs)

Expectations of a career in general practice (6mins 39secs)

Training to become a GP partner (7mins 27secs)

Concerns for the future of general practice (8mins 06secs)

What does the future of general practice look like? (9mins 25secs)

Will the partnership model exist in the future? (10mins 24secs)

An attractive career in the future? (10mins 52secs)

Freedom to innovate and influence may wain (11mins 49secs)

Is general practice still an attractive career option? (12mins 23secs)

Let’s be positive about general practice (13mins 13secs)

All doctors in training should do a GP placement (13mins 37secs)

A four year training programme? (14mins 22secs)

Next Generation GP – a programme for aspiring leaders in general practice (14mins 52secs)

Watch this space for the future of the programme (16mins 35secs)

Follow Nish on Twitter @nishmanek or, @nextggp for information about the Next Generation GP programme