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Dr Nav Chana is a GP and Chair of the National Association of Primary Care and, in this episode, he describes the Primary Care Home initiative from its origins and the drivers for its development, through its rapid growth to the impact being made on patient care and team morale. Nav outlines the four essential characteristics of a Primary Care Home and summarises the lessons learned so far.

Show Notes

The origins of the Primary Care Home (1min 19secs)

What drove the creation of the Primary Care Home? (2mins 19secs)

The growth of the model (3mins 37secs)

What is a Primary Care Home site? (4mins 31secs)

The elements of a Primary Care Home (5mins 07secs)

The four essential characteristics Number 1: Population health management (6mins 01secs)

What drives the enthusiasm of GPs to join? (6mins 47secs)

The four essential characteristics Number 2: Integrated systems (7mins 36secs)

The multi-professional “squad” (8mins 07secs)

Benefits to morale (8mins 57secs)

Finding the capacity to integrate (9mins 22secs)

Workload increased by poor communication (10mins 36secs)

Not just about scaling up (11mins 32secs)

Developing wider teams to support the Primary Care Home (11mins 54secs)

Does this require a single organisational “home” (13mins 12secs)

The four essential characteristics Number 3: Responsibility for the resources (14mins 02secs)

Taking on capitated budgets (15mins 27secs)

The four essential characteristics Number 4: Size (16mins 50secs)

The right population size; 30-50,000 (17mins 30secs)

The importance of engagement (18mins 46secs)

Access to data (19mins 14secs)

The impact of the model (20mins 12secs)

Finding out more (21mins 02secs)

More information from the NAPC on the Primary Care Home is available here

The three other episodes of the General Practice Podcast about the Primary Care Home are available here: Stewart Smith in Cornwall; Steve Kell in Notts and Jonathan Cope in Devon.