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This week we talk to Exmouth GP Jim Forrer. As well as chairing a GP federation, Jim is part of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurship programme and has a passion for new technologies. He talks to Ben about the fourteen technological projects currently taking place in his federation and, more generally, about the ways technology can support general practice and whether technology will ever replace GPs. And then he tells some cheese jokes…

Show Notes

The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme (44secs)

The “Future GP” idea (1mins 34secs)

Harvesting the benefits of new technology (2mins 30secs)

Jim’s vision (3mins 05secs)

A “hackathon” in Beirut (4mins 40secs)

A big idea: videoing consultations (6mins 20secs)

Working with a multinational team (7mins 25secs)

Implementing new technology into a federation (8mins 45secs)

Fourteen projects supported by The Estates and Technology Fund (9mins 27secs)

The projects (10mins 17secs)

Making the technology real (11mins 19secs)

Implementing the projects over the federation (12mins 26secs)

Can technology transform general practice? (14mins 23secs)

Where technology should be helping (15mins 24secs)

Which comes first; form or function? (17mins 02secs)

GP “unwillingness” to take on new technologies (18mins 27secs)

Learning from Jim’s experience (20mins 43secs)

Contacting Jim (21mins 30secs)

The cheese jokes… (21mins 52secs)

Jim is on Twitter @jimforrer and he can be contacted via email at jimforrer@nhs.net

If you want to see the pitch Jim mentions on You Tube you can find it here